EFFECT OF BACKGROUND SCENE COMPLEXITY AND FIELD DEPENDENCE ON THE LEGIBILITY OF HEAD-UP DISPLAYS FOR AUTOMOTIVE APPLICATIONS
This study examined the legibility of information presented on head-up displays (HUDs) for automotive application as a function of background scene complexity, the position of the HUD within field of view relative to the background scene, and the perceptual capacity of the perceiver. Groups of field-dependent and field-independent subjects viewed video footage from the perspective of following a lead car on an open road with low, moderate, and high scene complexity. Subjects were required to track the lead vehicle and identify HUD-presented targets of a specified orientation and specified changes in a HUD-presented speedometer. The results indicate that (a) HUD legibility deteriorated with increased visual complexity of the background scene; (b) positioning the HUD on the roadway reduced the effect of background scene complexity on HUD legibility; and (c) field-dependent subjects made fewer correct and more false positive target identifications than did field-independent subjects.
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Corporate Authors:
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
P.O. Box 1369
Santa Monica, CA United States 90406-1369 -
Authors:
- Ward, N J
- Parkes, A
- Crone, P R
- Publication Date: 1995-12
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: p. 735-745
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Serial:
- Human Factors
- Volume: 37
- Issue Number: 4
- Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
- ISSN: 0018-7208
- EISSN: 1547-8181
- Serial URL: http://hfs.sagepub.com/
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Drivers; Field of vision; Head up displays; Legibility; Perception
- Uncontrolled Terms: Complexity; Field of view
- Old TRIS Terms: Automotive application; Driver perception
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00724432
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Aug 17 1996 12:00AM