Driving is smoother and more stable when using the tangent point

Journal of Vision

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kandil, Farid I ^a   Rotter, Alexander ^b   Lappe, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b HELLA KGAA HUECK AND CO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Eye movements; Heading; Motion 3D; Navigation; Space and scene perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR DRIVING; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; VISION;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58349091264     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/9.1.11     Document Type: Article

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