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Using Eye Movements To Evaluate Effects of Driver Age on Risk Perception in a Driving SimulatorUniversity of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts
Novice drivers (16-year-olds with
Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Vol. 47, No. 4,
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6 months' driving experience) have the highest crash involvement rates per 100 million vehicle miles (161 million vehicle km). In the past, this was attributed to greater risk taking or poorly developed psychomotor skills. More recently, however, their high crash involvement rate has been hypothesized to be attributable largely to their relative inability to acquire and assess information in inherently risky situations. The current study seeks to evaluate this hypothesis by recording eye movements while 72 participants (24 novice drivers, 24 younger drivers, and 24 older drivers) drove through 16 risky scenarios in an advanced driving simulator. There were significant age-related differences in driver scanning behavior, consistent with the hypothesis that novice drivers' scanning patterns reflect their failure to acquire information about potential risks and their consequent failure to deal with these risks. Actual or potential applications of this research include modification of these scenarios for display on a PC as a basis for a training module that would enable novice drivers to recognize risky scenarios before they encounter them on the road, in the hope of reducing their high fatality rate. 
