Which parts of the road guide obstacle avoidance? Quantifying the driver's risk field

Gibson and Crooks (1938) argued that a ‘field of safe travel’ could qualitatively explain drivers' steering behavior on straights, curved roads, and while avoiding obstacles. This study aims to quantitatively explain driver behavior while avoiding obstacles on a straight road, and quantify the ‘Driver's Risk Field’ (DRF). In a fixed-based...

From Mackworth’s clock to the open road: A literature review on driver vigilance task operationalization

Objective<br/>This review aimed to characterize tasks applied in driving research, in terms of instructions/conditions, signal types/rates, and component features in comparison to the classic vigilance literature.<br/><br/>Background<br/>Driver state monitoring is facing increased attention with evolving vehicle automation, and real-time...

Review of eye-related measures of drivers’ mental workload

The assessment of mental workload could be helpful to road safety especially if developments of vehicle automation will increasingly place drivers into roles of supervisory control. With the rapidly decreasing size and increasing resolution of cameras as well as exponential computational power gains, remote eye measurements are growing in...