TOWARD AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF DRIVER BEHAVIOR IN COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE
Driving is a multitasking activity that requires drivers to manage their attention among various driving- and non-driving-related tasks. When one models drivers as continuous controllers, the discrete nature of drivers' control actions is lost and with it an important component for characterizing behavioral variability. A proposal is made for the use of cognitive architectures for developing models of driver behavior that integrate cognitive and perceptual-motor processes in a serial model of task and attention management. A cognitive architecture is a computational framework that incorporates built-in, well-tested parameters and constraints on cognitive and perceptual-motor processes. All driver models implemented in a cognitive architecture necessarily inherit these parameters and constraints, resulting in more predictive and psychologically plausible models than those that do not characterize driving as a multitasking activity. These benefits are demonstrated with a driver model developed in the ACT-R cognitive architecture. The model is validated by comparing its behavior to that of human drivers navigating a four-lane highway with traffic in a fixed-based driving simulator. Results show that the model successfully predicts aspects of both lower-level control, such as steering and eye movements during lane changes, and higher-level cognitive tasks, such as task management and decision making. Many of these predictions are not explicitly built into the model but come from the cognitive architecture as a result of the model's implementation in the ACT-R architecture.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1779, Traffic Safety 2001: Americans with Disabilities Act; Driver and Vehicle Modeling; Situation Awareness; Licensing; Driver Behavior; Enforcement; Trucks; and Motorcycles.
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Authors:
- Salvucci, D D
- Boer, E R
- Liu, A
- Publication Date: 2001
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: Figures; References;
- Pagination: p. 9-16
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Serial:
- Transportation Research Record
- Issue Number: 1779
- Publisher: Transportation Research Board
- ISSN: 0361-1981
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Attention; Behavior; Cognition; Computer models; Decision making; Drivers; Eye movements; Lane changing; Multitasking; Perception; Steering; Validation
- Uncontrolled Terms: Cognitive architecture
- Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;
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- Accession Number: 00824555
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 0309072379
- Files: TRIS, TRB
- Created Date: Feb 12 2002 12:00AM