A STUDY ON HUMAN INTERFACE OF NARROW ROAD DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM BASED ON DRIVERS' INFORMATION PROCESSING

This paper focuses on investigating how to design a human interface for a narrow road driving assistance system based on drivers' information processing and driving behavior. From the results of the past studies and the evaluation of drivers' information processing when using a narrow road driving assistance system, the following new method was proposed as a useful displaying method for visual information of a narrow road driving assistance system: the system shows the recommended route on an in-vehicle display and the information on the steering angles for passing through the narrow road on a head-up display. In experiments using a driving simulator, the effects of the proposed assistance system on elder drivers' behavior were studied. The results imply that elder drivers could not benefit from the information on the in-vehicle display because of cognitive overload. However, they could benefit from the information on the steering angles, and their mental workload was lower than the case when the system showing the recommended route on the in-vehicle display was used. The results imply that the proposed new method is effective for elder and young drivers in order to pass the narrow road smoothly and improve drivers' information processing.

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• Authors:
  • Sato, T
  • Kawashima, H
  • DAIMON, T
  • Ikeda, A
  • Kinoshita, M
• Conference:
  • 8th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: Sydney, Australia
  • Date: 2001-9-30 to 2001-10-4
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 8p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aged drivers; Behavior; Driver support systems; Driver vehicle interfaces; Drivers; Driving simulators; Head up displays; Information processing; Instrument displays; Intelligent transportation systems; Roads; Width
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00973821
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 25 2004 12:00AM