ND-0510 · 1987 · Other
Visual guidance of walking through apertures: Body-scaled information for affordances.
Warren, Whang. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 1987.
doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.13.3.371 · Finding drafted from the abstract
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What the source reports
People turn their shoulders once an opening is under 1.3 times shoulder width.
Design questions and applications
Size openings against the body, not only against code minimums.
Field
Thresholds, doors and boundaries
Notes and follow-up
Added from the Corpus Desk (card warren-1987-visual-guidance) on 2026-11-09. Evidence strength and translation distance not yet rated. WELL label held for review.
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Spatial variable
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