Results of previous researchers’ studies on the effect of blond hair color on helping behavior have been inconsistent. In addition, spontaneous helping behavior has not been examined. In this study, female confederates wearing blond, brown, or dark wigs accidentally dropped a glove while walking in pedestrian streets and then walked away, apparently not aware of their loss. It was found that ma...

Stated preference experiments have been known to suffer from the lack of realism. This issue is particularly visible when the scenario doesn’t have a well understood prior reference e.g. in case of the autonomous vehicles related scenarios. We present Virtual Immersive Reality Environment (VIRE) that is capable of developing highly realistic, immersive, and interactive choice scenario. We demon...

In this paper we will present the objectives of a Network Robot System project denominated URUS, a European IST-STREP project of the FP6 program. The general objective of the project is the development of new ways of cooperation between network robots and human beings and/or the environment in urban areas. The focus of the project is in urban pedestrian areas, an important topic in Europe where...

Abstract The relation between pedestrian flows, the structure of city and street network is central interest in urban research. However, studies this have traditionally been based on small data sets simplistic statistical methods. Because a recent large-scale cross-country survey, there now enough available to study greater detail than before, using modern We propose functional ANOVA model expl...