TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Impact of information bandwidth of in-vehicle technologies on drivers' attention maintenance performance: a driving simulator study
JO  - Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour
A1  - Yamani, Yusuke
A1  - Bıçaksız, Pınar
A1  - Unverricht, James
A1  - Samuel, Siby
SP  - 195
EP  - 202
VL  - 59
IS  - 
N2  - Previous research indicates that inexperienced drivers' ability to maintain their attention on the forward roadway during driving is poorer than experienced drivers, leading to more frequent, excessively long, off-road glances that elevate the risk of crashes. However, whether their poorer attention maintenance ability depends on complexities of in-vehicle technologies has been underexplored. This study directly manipulated information bandwidth (easy or complex) of an in-vehicle monitor and asked twenty-four drivers aged 18-21 to perform a visual number judgment task with either 5 digits (easy) or 11 digits (complex), during simulated driving. Participants had to verbally respond within 15 s whether each string of presented digits contained more odd or even digits. Eye movements were recorded using an eye tracker. <br><br>RESULTS show that the drivers produced a greater number of off-road glances and longer summed excess glance durations under a 1.5-s threshold when the in-vehicle task imposed greater information processing demand. In practice, designers of in-vehicle technologies should consider information-processing demands of in-vehicle tasks required by the technologies to minimize the frequency of excessively long off-road glances during driving.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1369-8478
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2018.09.004
ID  - ref1
ER  -