VISUAL ALLOCATION AND THE AVAILABILITY OF DRIVER INFORMATION

Driver information systems can be classified as those that provide information, recommend action or actively assume control of the vehicle in some manner. This paper considers the impact on visual behaviour of systems that provide information and recommend action. More specifically, it investigates changes in visual behaviour as a consequence of system and driver control of available information. It is hypothesised that driver control of information would impinge primarily on visual attention to the forward view. System control of information is predicted to intrude on visual scanning to the other regions of the visual scene in addition to the forward view. Visual scanning to these regions (e.g. driver mirror, left and right regions and instrument panel) is suggested to decrease because the in-vehicle display is in competition with roadway information. For the covering abstract, see IRRD 896859.

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• Authors:
  • Lansdown, T C
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 215-23
• Serial:
  • TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT PSYCHOLOGY. THEORY AND APPLICATION
  • Publisher: Elsevier

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alertness; Behavior; Classification; Control; Digital computers; Driver information systems; Drivers; Information display systems; Maps; Perception; Simulation; Vehicle compartments; Vehicle interiors; Vision; Visual display units
• Uncontrolled Terms: Visual display
• ITRD Terms: 2238: Attention; 9001: Behaviour; 8513: Classification; 3874: Control; 8673: Digital computer; 1772: Driver; 1377: Interior (veh); 4074: Map; 2229: Perception; 9103: Simulation; 2066: Vision; 8630: Visual display
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00752475
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-08-042786-3
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Sep 18 1998 12:00AM