Analysis of Temporal Relationships between Eye Gaze and Peripheral Vehicle Behavior for Detecting Driver Distraction

A car driver’s cognitive distraction is a main factor behind car accidents. One’s state of mind is subconsciously exposed as a reaction reflecting it by external stimuli. A visual event that occurs in front of the driver when a peripheral vehicle overtakes the driver’s vehicle is regarded as the external stimulus. We focus on temporal relationships between the driver’s eye gaze and the peripheral vehicle behavior. The analysis result showed that the temporal relationships depend on the driver’s state. In particular we confirmed that the timing of the gaze toward the stimulus under the distracted state induced by a music retrieval task using an automatic speech recognition system is later than that under a neutral state while only driving without the secondary cognitive task. This temporal feature can contribute to detecting the cognitive distraction automatically. A detector based on a Bayesian framework using this feature achieves better accuracy than one based on the percentage road center method.

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Supplemental Notes:
- © 2013 Takatsugu Hirayama et al.
Authors:
- Hirayama, Takatsugu
- Mase, Kenji
- Takeda, Kazuya
Publication Date: 2013

Language

English

Media Info

Media Type: Digital/other
Features: Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
Pagination: Article ID 285927
Serial:
- International Journal of Vehicular Technology
- Volume: 2013
- Publisher: Hindawi Publishing Corporation
- Serial URL: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijvt/

Subject/Index Terms

TRT Terms: Cognition; Detection and identification; Distraction; Eye movements; Human factors in crashes; Peripheral vision; Traffic crashes
Uncontrolled Terms: Temporal analysis
Subject Areas: Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor;

Filing Info

Accession Number: 01494873
Record Type: Publication
Files: TRIS
Created Date: Sep 27 2013 12:13PM