Driver Eye Movement During a Route Navigation Information Search Institute for Automotive and Manufacturing Advanced Practice (AMAP), University of Sunderland

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Li, Guangyan, author.

Conference Name:

Automotive and Transportation Technology Congress and Exposition (2001-10-01 : Barcelona, Spain)

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource cm

Place of Publication:

Warrendale, PA SAE International 2001

Summary:

In-vehicle route navigation systems are used by an increasing number of drivers throughout the world. These systems are intended to assist the driver in the driving task by providing real-time navigational instructions. However, most route navigation systems appear to have been developed on the basis of technical features, rather than from a usability/human factors viewpoint, causing concerns over their safety implications, especially for older drivers.An experimental study was carried out to test drivers' preference of markers in an electronic map display. This was done by analysing drivers eye fixation and movement during information searching in a number of route navigation tasks. The study indicates that, in order to find the correct' road during a navigational search, participants adopt visual search strategies in which they tend to fixate, initially on text road identification markers, followed by glances to numeric and symbolic road markers. There was also significant interaction between marker type and map orientation for their influences on eye fixation. It is anticipated that by taking the driver preference for road marker type into consideration in the design of in-vehicle route displays, the system will be used more efficiently

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Publisher Number:

2001-01-3286

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