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Citation

Tomoaki N, Muneo Y, Yoshiya T, Osami Y, Shin Y. IEEJ Trans. Sens. Micromach. 2006; 126(11): 596-602.

Affiliation

Meijo University, Tempaku-ku, Nagoya, 468-8502

Copyright

(Copyright © 2006, Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

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Abstract

Aging goes on rapidly in Japan and traffic accidents of elderly driver are increasing year by year. It is a main cause of the accidents that most elderly drivers are not aware of the reduction in their visual performances. The purpose of this research is to develop the system that measures the elderly visual perceptions necessary for safe driving and improves their perceptions by education and training. This paper describes the simulator for measuring the most important visual perceptions; visual field, dynamic visual acuity and depth perception while driving. This paper also presents the measurement results of the visual perceptions for older drivers.

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