Visual search patterns in trained and untrained novice drivers

Chapman, Peter; Underwood, Geoffrey; Roberts, Keith

doi:10.1016/s1369-8478(02)00014-1

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“…The 'meaningless' visual search however, may not have improved drivers' mental model of hazardous situations. Improving the novices' mental model of hazardous situations could result in improved recognition and processing of hazards (Chapman, Underwood, & Roberts, 2002). Furthermore, due to the lack of hazardous information in the visual stimuli the inexperienced drivers were not trained in generating appropriate responses after detecting hazardous situations.…”

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Investigating the Effect of a Visual Search Task for Simulator-Based Driver Training

Leeuwen

Happee

Winter

2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design : Dr

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Summary:Novice drivers tend to direct their gaze to the road ahead and not scan the environment properly. This study investigated the training effectiveness of a visual search task in a driving simulator, aimed at increasing young drivers' spread of visual search. Two groups of inexperienced drivers were instructed to drive as accurately as possible in the center of the right lane in a self-paced driving task of four 6-min sessions in a rural environment. While driving, one group performed a visual search task, consisting of detecting and fixating on visual stimuli in the peripheral area. The stimuli were purple dots that faded in slowly and disappeared when fixated by the participant. After training, both groups drove a transfer session in an urban environment, in which various hazardous situations occurred. Results showed that both groups improved their lane keeping performance, whereas the training group became more proficient in the visual search task. However, in the transfer session no group differences were detected. In conclusion, despite improvements in visual search performance during a relatively short training period, the visual search training did not detectibly influence the spread of visual search of novice drivers during a post training transfer session.

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Investigating the Effect of a Visual Search Task for Simulator-Based Driver Training

Leeuwen

Happee

Winter

2013

Proceedings of the 7th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design : Dr

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“…There are several possible explanations for deficiencies in hazard perception including inefficient search of the driving environment (Chapman, Underwood, & Roberts, 2002;Falkmer & Gregersen, 2005;Pradhan et al, 2005;, increased risk-taking (Jonah, 1986) and poorly developed mental models of driving risk (Horswill & McKenna, 2004;Underwood, et al, 2002).…”

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“…It has been found that they do not scan the roadway efficiently (Chapman, Underwood, & Roberts, 2002;Falkmer & Gregersen, 2005;Pradhan et al, 2005;Underwood, Chapman, Bowden, & Crundall, 2002) and so hazards that are identified by other more experienced drivers may go unnoticed. It may also be the case that novice drivers have an underdeveloped mental model of roadway hazards that might be present in driving situations (Horswill & McKenna, 2004;.…”

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Developing a North American Static Hazard Perception Test

Lyon

Borkenhagen

Scialfa

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 6th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design : Dr

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Summary:We examined the ability of young novice (M = .19 yrs experience) and experienced drivers (M = 5.1 yrs experience) to identify and localize frequently encountered roadway hazards using static images taken in western Canada. Dependent measures also included subjective ratings of hazard risk and scene clutter. Novice drivers reacted to roadway hazards more slowly while rating them as being less hazardous than young, experienced drivers. Using a small subset of scenes, it was determined that a brief hazard perception test employing static images could classify individuals with high accuracy (78%) and good reliability (Cronbach's alpha = .91).

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“…Driving experience is one of the factors influence driving skills, many researches showed that novice drivers have more accidents than experienced ones, because the former have less driving experience (Joel Monárrez-Espino, Marie Hasselberg and Lucie Laflamme, 2005), and eye movement research informed that novice drivers could not scan multiple locations in the visual scene for sources of potential danger (Peter Chapman, Geoffrey Underwood and Katharine Roberts, 2002).…”

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Behavior Analysis of Traffic Accidents with High Fidelity Driving Simulator

Yang

Zhang

Sun

2009

International Conference on Transportation Engineering 2009

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Unskilled Driving is one of the reasons for traffic accidents. The accidents could be reduced if drivers' skills are tested accurately. In this research, XuanAi QJ4B high fidelity and immersive driving simulator was used as the experimental platform that included testing roads and controlling software. 10 roads based on real roads in China were prepared to be the test ones that including five types of sections: highway, city, country, Mountain and their mixed one. For each road, there were two driving conditions: driving without traffic, driving with heavy traffic and emergencies that probably caused accidents. The software could record the situation of the vehicle and driver such as the time of finishing task, times of out of road, times of collision and so on. 19 drivers participated in the test, and then evaluated driving skills by each other. Comparing the driving situation with or without traffic and analyzing the roads we found out that the time of finishing task and times of out of road were sensitive to distinguish the drivers. In addition, under the situation with heavy traffic, comparing the behavior of accident drivers and behavior of drivers without accidents, the result showed that city road, country road and mountain road were sensitive to distinguish the drivers.

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Visual search patterns in trained and untrained novice drivers

Cited by 173 publications

References 6 publications

Investigating the Effect of a Visual Search Task for Simulator-Based Driver Training

Investigating the Effect of a Visual Search Task for Simulator-Based Driver Training

Developing a North American Static Hazard Perception Test

Behavior Analysis of Traffic Accidents with High Fidelity Driving Simulator

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