Beach lifeguards: Visual search patterns, detection rates and the influence of experience

Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 216-224

  Page, Jenny ^a   Bates, Victoria ^a   Long, Geoff ^a   Dawes, Peter ^b   Tipton, Mike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b Staff Officer Operations (Training)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Ocular fixation; Task performance and analysis; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; DROWNING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCULOGRAPHY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SWIMMING; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; BATHING BEACHES; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CUES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DROWNING; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953751208     PISSN: 02755408     EISSN: 14751313     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-1313.2011.00824.x     Document Type: Article

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