Cross-modal warnings for orienting attention in older drivers with and without attention impairments

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 768-776

  Lees, Monica N ^a   Cosman, Joshua ^b,c   Lee, John D ^d   Vecera, Shaun P ^c   Dawson, Jeffrey D ^e   Rizzo, Matthew ^a,b  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c University of Iowa   (United States)

^d Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Driving; Interface design; Older drivers; Spatial attention; Useful field of view; Warning signal

Indexed keywords

CRASHWORTHINESS;

DRIVING; INTERFACE DESIGNS; OLDER DRIVERS; SPATIAL ATTENTION; USEFUL FIELD OF VIEW; WARNING SIGNALS;

ACCIDENTS;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CAR DRIVING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIRECTIONAL VISION; DRIVER; DRIVING ABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTING ATTENTION; ORIENTING RESPONSE; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL FIELD;

EID: 84858079971     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: 18729126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2011.11.012     Document Type: Article

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