Influence of Nonvisual Secondary Tasks on Driver's Pedestrian Detection

The most frequent type of fatal traffic accident is caused by “aimless driving” in Japan. In many cases the victims are pedestrians on straight roads, where there are usually fewer objects drivers need to pay attention to than at intersections. In this study, the authors investigate driver gazing fo...

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Published inInternational journal of cognitive informatics & natural intelligence Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 21 - 32
Main Authors Iwasaki, Hirotoshi, Yoshizawa, Akira
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hershey IGI Global 01.10.2015
Subjects
Attention
Automobile driving
Drivers
Eye movements
Fatal
Intelligence
Motor vehicle driving
Pedestrians
Psychological aspects
Psychological research
Roads
Tasks
Traffic accidents
Visual perception
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Summary:The most frequent type of fatal traffic accident is caused by “aimless driving” in Japan. In many cases the victims are pedestrians on straight roads, where there are usually fewer objects drivers need to pay attention to than at intersections. In this study, the authors investigate driver gazing for detecting pedestrians in such situations. To make subjects seem “aimless,” they gave them nonvisual secondary tasks of four difficulty levels while they tried to watch pedestrians and press a key to answer their moving direction. The result indicated that even nonvisual tasks influence eye movement and the subjects fail to react properly.
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ISSN:1557-3958
1557-3966
DOI:10.4018/IJCINI.2015100102