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Title of Study: Connected electric vehicles: Vehicle-pedestrian communications to enhance vision impaired pedestrian safety

Sponsor: Center for Advanced Transportation Mobility

If you decide to participate in this study, you will complete a survey. As part of the study, you will proceed through the virtual survey and indicate what answer best applies to you. This survey includes questions about your vision ability, minor demographic information, personal device usage, and street crossing behaviors and habits. This survey also asks about preferences in design of new devices. 

This study should take 20 to 30 minutes of your time. 

We do not anticipate any risks from completing this study. 

You can choose whether to be in this study or not.  If you volunteer to be in this study, you may withdraw at any time without consequences of any kind.  You may also refuse to answer any questions you don’t want to answer and remain in the study. The investigator may withdraw you from this research if circumstances arise which warrant doing so.

We will do our best to protect the confidentiality of the information we gather from you, but we cannot guarantee 100% confidentiality.

Any data collected during this research study will be kept confidential by the researchers. Your survey information will be protected and only visible to the research team. The researchers will only use nonidentifiable information as part of the data analysis. Any information that is identifiable will only be used for compensation purposes or if you wish to participate in this study further. After compensation is received or participation in further trials (if you choose to do so) is completed, this information will be destroyed.