Eyeglance Behavior of Novice Teen and Experienced Adult Drivers

Lee, Suzanne E.; Olsen, Erik C. B.; Simons‐Morton, Bruce G.

doi:10.3141/1980-10

Cited by 28 publications

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“…The question about the effect of participant age is partially supported by an understanding that younger inexperienced drivers can exhibit different glance patterns which represents a difference in experience (Lee, Olsen, & Simons-Morton, 2007). Inclusion of older adults could represent normal cognitive aging or unfamiliarity with the device being tested; although, research shows that the gap between younger adults and older adults is continuously decreasing in regards to technology-knowledge (Charness & Boot, 2009).…”

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confidence: 98%

Using Occlusion to Measure the Effects of the NHTSA Participant Criteria on Driver Distraction Testing

Domeyer¹,

Diptiman²,

Hamada

2014

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Recently the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued the final version of its voluntary Visual-Manual Distraction Guidelines and provided specific guidance on how to conduct driver distraction testing (NHTSA, 2013). The guidelines provide evaluation criteria for determining whether a task should be available while driving, including specifications for participants to consist of four age groups ranging from 18 to 75. The present study examines the age criteria from the NHTSA Guidelines to determine which groups will most often provide outcomes resulting in a task being unavailable while driving. Additionally, this study compares industry employees with participants from the general public to judge whether consistent results can be found between both samples. The results indicate that the 55+ age group will be the most likely to result in a task being unavailable to the driver while driving. It was also possible to obtain consistent results between non-interface design employees and the general public. The implications for testing procedures and conclusions are discussed.

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Section: Present Studymentioning

confidence: 98%

Using Occlusion to Measure the Effects of the NHTSA Participant Criteria on Driver Distraction Testing

Domeyer¹,

Diptiman²,

Hamada

2014

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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“…Lee et al (26) reported several findings about the first T 0 session. Their conclusions were that teens consistently failed to check the mirrors and had more EOR time than adults during more challenging tasks (26). This conclusion suggests that the eye glance scanning patterns for novice teen drivers were not as well developed as those of experienced adult drivers, a finding that is in agreement with driving-simulator research involving novice drivers (23,24).…”

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Eye Movement Patterns for Novice Teen Drivers

Olsen

Lee

Simons-Morton³

2007

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Attention to the road is essential to safe driving, but the development of appropriate eye glance scanning behaviors may require substantial driving experience. Novice teen drivers may focus almost exclusively on the road ahead rather than scanning the mirrors, and when performing secondary tasks, they may spend more time with eyes on the task than on the road. This paper examines the extent to which the scanning of novice teens improves with experience. For this study, 18 novice teen (younger than 17.5 years old) and 18 experienced adult drivers performed a set of in-vehicle tasks and a baseline driving segment on a test track, the teens within 4 weeks of licensure and then again 6 months later. This paper addresses the following questions: Did teen eye glance performance improve from initial assessment? Did teens and adults still differ after 6 months? Results for some tasks showed that rearview and left mirror-window (LM-W) glances improved for teens from initial testing to the 6-month follow-up and that some differences between teens and adults at initial testing were no longer significant at the 6-month follow-up, suggesting significant learning effects. The frequency of rearview and LM-W glances during secondary tasks improved among teens at the 6-month follow-up, but teens still had significantly fewer glances to mirrors than did adults when engaged in a secondary task.

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“…The early research of Mourant and Rockwell (12,13,14,15) was the first to reveal differences between novices and experienced drivers in terms of the visual acquisition process (scanning forward and to the mirrors) and the frequency of lane-line sampling while driving on the open road. Additional efforts have recently begun using a test-track to evaluate differences between adult and novice drivers (16,17,18,19), during which differences were found in terms of stopping behavior (at an intersection) and scanning behavior. For example, adults have been found to be more likely to stop at a changing traffic light than youth, and teens tend to have fewer mirror glances than adults.…”

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Detection of Road Hazards by Novice Teen and Experienced Adult Drivers

Lee

Klauer

Olsen

et al. 2008

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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Previous laboratory and simulator research has indicated that hazard detection skills and abilities are less developed among novice drivers compared with experienced adult drivers. Novices tend to miss some relevant cues and may be less able to process important elements in the environment while driving. As was found with other research methods, it was hypothesized that novices would have lower hazard detection skills and will react less appropriately to hazards than older and more experienced drivers.Three hazard perception scenarios were simulated on a test track and data were collected on newly licensed teen drivers (within 2 weeks of licensure) and a comparison group of adults. The scenarios included a hidden stop sign, hidden pedestrian, and hidden pedestrian with lane closure (this last included a text-messaging task). Discrete quantitative performance metrics were evaluated for this analysis, including: 1) Did the participant glance at the potential hazard (e.g., stop sign, pedestrian)? 2) Did the participant stop (for the stop sign scenario)? 3) Did the participant show signs of indecision, caution, or awareness (for all hazards)?Significant differences between teen drivers and more experienced adult drivers were found in a combined hazard detection analysis. Results indicate that the adult drivers observed hazards and demonstrated overt recognition of hazards more frequently than the teen drivers. Results indicated that a large portion of teen drivers failed to disengage from peripheral task engagement in the presence of hazards. The results will later be compared to naturalistic data for the same set of drivers to see whether these test track results are predictive of real-world behavior.

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Eyeglance Behavior of Novice Teen and Experienced Adult Drivers

Cited by 28 publications

References 21 publications

Using Occlusion to Measure the Effects of the NHTSA Participant Criteria on Driver Distraction Testing

Using Occlusion to Measure the Effects of the NHTSA Participant Criteria on Driver Distraction Testing

Eye Movement Patterns for Novice Teen Drivers

Detection of Road Hazards by Novice Teen and Experienced Adult Drivers

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