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Eye movements and hazard perception in active and passive driving

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Date
2015
Author
MacKenzie, Andrew Kerr
Harris, Julie
Keywords
Eye movements
Driving
Visual Cognition
Hazard Perception
Natural Scene Perception
BF Psychology
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Abstract
Differences in eye movement patterns are often found when comparing passive viewing paradigms to actively engaging in everyday tasks. Arguably, investigations into visuomotor control should therefore be most useful when conducted in settings that incorporate the intrinsic link between vision and action. We present a study that compares oculomotor behaviour and hazard reaction times across a simulated driving task and a comparable, but passive, video-based hazard perception task. We found that participants scanned the road less during the active driving task and fixated closer to the front of the vehicle. Participants were also slower to detect the hazards in the driving task. Our results suggest that the interactivity of simulated driving places increased demand upon the visual and attention systems than simply viewing driving movies. We offer insights into why these differences occur and explore the possible implications of such findings within the wider context of driver training and assessment.
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MacKenzie , A K & Harris , J 2015 , ' Eye movements and hazard perception in active and passive driving ' , Visual Cognition , vol. In press . https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2015.1079583
Publication
Visual Cognition
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2015.1079583
ISSN
1350-6285
Type
Journal article
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© 2015 The author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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This work was supported by the Engineering and the Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) under Grant EP/K503162/1.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7441

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