DRIVER-SOMNOLENCE AND EYE-MOVEMENTS STUDIED IN A NIGHT- DRIVING SIMULATION

The simulator of Milner and Bolin has been improved by adoption of digital electronics and by the addition of a dedicated microcomputer which performs a real-time analysis of the subject's current driving performance. Experience has shown that symptoms of somnolence/sleep appear at least as frequently in the simulator as in driving on the road. In these studies, subject "drove" the simulator while fitted with facial electrodes which enable recording of horizontal eye movements and of blinks. At the same time, the instrumented simulator provided a measure of the leading vehicle, during the past 70 s approximately, computed a fresh each 5 s approximately. Both these objective measures have already shown some interesting relations with symptom records. In particular, abnormally low-speed saccades have been observed during brief periods of subject-somnolence The number of the covering abstract of the conference is TRIS No. 396810. (Author/TRRL)

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand. Ergonomics and Technological Change, Holme Building, Sydney, Australia, 28-30 November 1984.
• Corporate Authors:

  Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand

  191 Royal Parade
  Parkville, Victoria 3052,   Australia 

  Erogonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand

  191 Royal Parade
  Parkville, Victoria 3052,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • Milner, C J
  • Dick, G L
  • Hammer, R M
• Publication Date: 1984

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 169-183
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand
  • Publisher: Ergonomics Society of Australia and New Zealand
  • ISSN: 0726-7029

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Conferences; Driver performance; Drivers; Driving simulators; Eye movements; Fatigue (Physiological condition); Instrumentation; Mathematical analysis; Methodology; Microcomputers; Night; Personnel performance; Real time control; Real time data processing; Simulation; Sleep; Slow moving vehicles; Vision
• Geographic Terms: Australia
• Old TRIS Terms: Driver vision
• ITRD Terms: 6471: Analysis (math); 8006: Australia; 9001: Behaviour; 8525: Conference; 1772: Driver; 2057: Eye movement; 2222: Fatigue (human); 9102: Method; 9052: Night; 8679: Real time; 9103: Simulation; 1802: Slow driving
• Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00396813
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Report/Paper Numbers: Monograph
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 31 1986 12:00AM