Assessing Text Reading and Text Entry While Driving Using the Visual Occlusion Technique

In this article, the authors explore how drivers share their attention between secondary tasks and the vehicle control task. They focus on the effect of text reading and text entry (two tasks increasingly completed while driving) on driver performance. Their study estimates the time drivers spend completing text reading and text entry tasks of varying difficulty level, and they hypothesize that text entry would take longer than text reading. Visual occlusion technique serves as a surrogate for driving when assessing attentional demand of in-vehicle systems and, in this study, Total Shutter Open Time (TSOT) is used as the surrogate measure for the time drivers' eyes leave the road to complete a secondary task. Among the results, total time spent on a task with vision occluded is found to be generally shorter than the task time in the static condition.

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• Authors:
  • Ghazizadeh, Mahtab
  • Lee, John D
  • Peng, Yiyun
  • Boyle, Linda Ng
• Publication Date: 2015-1

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos; References;
• Pagination: pp 51-54
• Serial:
  • Accident Reconstruction Journal
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: National Association of Professional Accident Reconstruction Specialists
  • ISSN: 1057-8153
  • Serial URL: https://www.napars.org/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Distraction; Driver performance; Text messaging
• Uncontrolled Terms: Visual occlusion
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01557453
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 20 2015 3:21PM