The relation between driving experience and recognition of road signs relative to their locations

Human Factors

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-182

  Borowsky, Avinoam ^a   Shinar, David ^a,b   Parmet, Yisrael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b Israel's National Road Safety Authority ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); OBJECT RECOGNITION; TRAFFIC SIGNALS;

EYE TRACKER SYSTEM; ROAD SIGNS;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVING ABILITY; ERROR; EXPECTATION; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RECOGNITION; TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC SIGN;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 44349184274     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1518/001872008X288330     Document Type: Article

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