Mind wandering behind the wheel: Performance and oculomotor correlates

Human Factors

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-21

  He, Jibo ^a   Becic, Ensar ^b   Lee, Yi Ching ^c   McCarley, Jason S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

attention; distraction; driver behavior; eye movements; mind wandering

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; CAR-FOLLOWING; CRASH INVOLVEMENT; DISTRACTION; DRIVER BEHAVIOR; DRIVING SIMULATOR; HIGH FIDELITY; IN-VEHICLE; MIND WANDERING; POTENTIAL RISKS; VEHICLE CONTROL; VISUAL ATTENTION;

AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; CRASHWORTHINESS; EXPERIMENTS;

EYE MOVEMENTS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CAR DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955801693     PISSN: 00187208     EISSN: 15478181     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018720810391530     Document Type: Article

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