Age-Differences in the Visual Information Processing Demands of Vehicle Instrument Panel Interfaces

8/7/00


Click here to start


Table of Contents

Title Page

These are Preliminary Results !!!

Changing Nature of the Driving Environment

Advanced Instrument Panel Developments

Text I/O Console Prototypes

Research Questions

Experimental Design

Visual Demand Proxy Measures

STISIM Driving Simulator

Text Message Console

Sample 4-Line Text Dialog (24 point Times-Roman font)

Simulated Driving Course

Impact of Reading Text upon Simulated Driving Performance

Crashes - Young Drivers

Crashes - Older Drivers

Steering Instability Results

Video Clips:
Reading Text Messages on Straight Road Segments

More Video Clips:
Reading Text Messages-Complex Roadway Conditions

Visual Demands of Text Displays
[Eye Glance Behavior]

Total Glance Time

Number of Glances

Average Glance Duration

Inter-Glance Interval “Eyes-on-the-Road” Time

Preliminary Conclusions

Author: Frank Schieber

Email: schieber@usd.edu

Home Page: http://www.usd.edu/~schieber/iea2000

Download presentation source