Glance strategies for using an in-vehicle touch-screen monitor.

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• Creators:
  Fuller, Helen ; Simhoni, Omer
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Michigan. Transportation Research Institute
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  Automobile Drivers--Psychology Automobile Driving Simulators Distracted Driving Distraction Human Factors Touch Screens
• Publication/ Report Number:
  UMTRI-2009-5
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Michigan
• Corporate Publisher:
  University of Michigan. Transportation Research Institute
• Abstract:
  In this study, subjects in a driving simulator followed a lead vehicle that continuously changed speed
  
  while they also performed a secondary task on a touch-screen monitor that could be located at various
  
  positions within the simulator. Subjects were instructed to give priority to the following task. Driving
  
  performance in the following task was affected by whether or not the secondary task was required, but
  
  was not affected by the location of the monitor. However, consistent with the instructions about priority
  
  of tasks, time to complete the secondary task was strongly influenced by monitor position. Farther
  
  locations required more time, especially for shorter subjects. Analysis of the number and timing of
  
  glances away from the road suggested that subjects coped with the more difficult monitor positions
  
  primarily by making more glances to the monitor, while the average duration of individual glances was
  
  not much affected. These results suggest that the subjects’ partial success in coping with the secondary
  
  task was possible because the secondary task could be broken down into partially independent subtasks.
  
  This study was part of a modeling effort designed to better understand the combined visual and motor
  
  demands of secondary tasks, and how they are affected by the design of controls and displays. Various
  
  ways in which this study should be extended to support that modeling effort are reviewed.
  
  
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• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
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