Task difficulty, risk, effort and comfort in a simulated driving task-Implications for Risk Allostasis Theory

Accident Analysis and Prevention

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1053-1063

  Lewis Evans, Ben ^a   Rothengatter, Talib ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Driver decision making; Driving simulator; Risk; Risk Allostasis Theory; Task difficulty; Task Difficulty Homeostasis

Indexed keywords

DRIVER BEHAVIOUR; DRIVER DECISION MAKING; DRIVING SIMULATOR; IN-CONTROL; SIMULATED DRIVING; TASK DIFFICULTY; TASK-DIFFICULTY HOMEOSTASIS; THRESHOLD EFFECT; VIDEO CLIPS; WASHINGTON;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; BODY FLUIDS; DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTS; SURFACE TENSION;

DECISION THEORY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CAR; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 67949115530     PISSN: 00014575     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aap.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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