Distraction Effects of In-vehicle Navigation Display, DVD Entertainment Device, and Age upon Driver's Driving Behaviors and Visual Detection Performance

Autor: Zheng-Li Chen, 陳正立
Rok vydání: 2007
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 95
The study investigated the distraction effects of three navigation display modalities (baseline vs. HUD vs. auditory), two locations of DVD device (in front of driver vs. in back of driver), three DVD attention demand conditions (baseline vs. pay attention vs. pay no attention) and age (younger vs. elderly) on driving behaviors and visual detection performance under both low and high load driving conditions. 18 younger and 18 elderly subjects participated in two experiments using navigation and DVD entertainment systems. Results indicated that: (1) For navigation system, the younger drivers had better performance than the elderly drivers in terms of the total number of correct truns, driving behavior and subjective workload ratings. However, drivers using HUD caused worse performance than using auditory and baseline in visual detection and those measures mentioned above. (2) For DVD system, the elderly drivers produced larger longitudinal velocity variations than younger drivers did. Drivers using the DVD located in front of them and paid attention on the video content had the worst performance results than DVD located in back of driver’s and paid no attention in terms of visual detection, driving behaviors, and subjective workload ratings. Notably, high load driving condition made those differences more significant than low driving load road.
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