This $470,104 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports a research study on how parents guide their 6- to 8-year-old children in learning safe road crossing skills. The University of Iowa will leverage immersive virtual environments and wearable pedestrian technology to observe how parents' risk tolerance and children's self-regulation impact the guidance provided during joint road crossing tasks. This interdisciplinary project aims to advance the scientific understanding of how guided learning shapes the development of perception-action and decision-making skills for challenging real-world tasks like road crossing. The findings could help identify effective strategies for teaching children to safely cross roads. The project will run from September 2024 through August 2027.
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