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Walking Paths To And From A Goal Differ: On The Role Of Bearing Angle In The Formation Of Human Locomotion Paths, Manish Sreenivasa, Katja Mombaur, Jean-Paul Laumond

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part B

The path that humans take while walking to a goal is the result of a cognitive process modulated by the perception of the environment and physiological constraints. The path shape and timing implicitly embeds aspects of the architecture behind this process. Here, locomotion paths were investigated during a simple task of walking to and from a goal, by looking at the evolution of the position of the human on a horizontal (x,y) plane. We found that the path while walking to a goal was not the same as that while returning from it. Forward-return paths were systematically separated by 0.5-1.9m, …