Evaluating Effectiveness of Partitioning Complex Visual Displays on Glancing Behavior Inside of Vehicle
Driver distraction associated with in-vehicle technologies, especially those involving complex visual displays, can threaten driver safety. The threat is arguably the greatest when the driver is glancing inside the vehicle and away from the forward roadway. A number of studies have shown that glances inside the vehicle longer than two seconds can increase crash risk by up to a factor of three. The more visually demanding is the display, the longer is the driver apt to glance away from the forward roadway. Map displays have been shown to generate especially high frequencies of dangerously long glances away from the forward roadway. In search of a novel technique to decrease the frequency of especially long glances at maps, the current study directly manipulated the presence of partitioning lines within map displays and examined the effect of a partitioned visual display on novice drivers’ off-road glance durations. Participants were asked to search for a target street on partitioned and non-partitioned maps in four different environments on a driving simulator. The results suggest that the partitioning does not allow drivers to reduce the frequency of especially long durations of off-road glances. Further analysis indicated that partitioning did not guide drivers’ eye movements to effectively reduce the overall mean glance duration and the frequency of especially long glances inside of the vehicle. Additional research should investigate how glancing guided by partitioning alters visual scanning behavior while driving in various environments.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AND20 User Information Systems.
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Authors:
- Takahashi, Momoha
- Yamani, Yusuke
- Dündar, Ceyda
- Fisher, Donald L
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC, United States
- Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
- Date: 2015
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References;
- Pagination: 14p
- Monograph Title: TRB 94th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crash causes; Digital maps; Distraction; Eye movements; Field of vision; Instrument displays; Risk assessment
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01550566
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 15-2908
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 26 2015 9:50AM