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Performance Metrics for Assessing Driver Distraction: The Quest for Improved Road Safety

This book focuses on the study of secondary task demands imposed by in-vehicle devices on the driver while driving. It provides a mechanism for researchers to evaluate how in-vehicle devices such as navigation systems – as well as other devices such as cell phones – affect driver distraction and impact safety.

This book, which features the work presented by international experts at the 4th International Driver Metrics Workshop, in June 2008, offers a summary of the current state of driver metrics research.

Edited by workshop moderator Dr. Gary L. Rupp, the book introduces vital information to support the design of in-vehicle information and communication systems (IVIS).

Topics covered include:

  • Driver object and event detection
  • Peripheral detection tasks (PDT)
  • Tactile-based detection tasks (TDT)
  • Modified Sternberg method for assessing visual and cognitive load of in-vehicle tasks
  • Modified Sternberg method for assessing peripheral detection task and lane change tests
  • The relationship between performance metrics and crash risk
  • Characterizing driver behaviors observed in naturalist driving studies
  • Developing metrics from lane change test studies

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Published By: SAE International
Pages: 264
Binding: Softbound
Product Code: R-402
Product Status: Available
Gary L. Rupp
Dr. Gary Rupp was with Ford Motor Company from 1979 until his retirement in 2007.
During that tenure, his work encompassed all areas of driver-vehicle interaction, besides developing numerous Ford CAD tools and computer models for making ergonomic assessments.
Prior to coming to Ford, he was an Assistant professor of Industrial Engineering at The University of Toledo, specializing in Human Factor. He has a BSE in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University, and MSE and PhD degrees in Bioengineering from the University of Michigan.
Dr. Rupp has chaired many SAE and ISO ergonomics committees and has led the development of several national and international ergonomics standards.
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Performance Metrics for Assessing Driver Distraction: The Quest for Improved Road Safety

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Performance Metrics for Assessing Driver Distraction: The Quest for Improved Road Safety

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Chapters / Sections
1.
Driver Metrics, and Overview of User Needs and Uses
2.
Driver Performance Metrics in Interface Design: Results of the 2nd International Driver Metrics Workshop
3.
Conceptualizing Effects of Secondary Task Demands on Event Detection During Driving: Surrogate methods and Issues
4.
The Peripheral Detection Task (PDT): On-line Measurement of Driver Cognitive Workload and Selective Attention
5.
The Tactile Detection Task as a Method for Assessing Drivers' Cognitive Load
6.
Modified Sternberg Method for Assessing Event Detection While Driving
7.
A Comparison of the Modified Sternberg Method, Peripheral Detection Tasks, and Other Surrogate Techniques
8.
Naturalistic Driving: Crash and Near Crash Surrogate Distraction Metrics
9.
Use of On-Road Data in Evaluating Driver Performance Metrics
10.
Lane Keeping Performance Metrics for Assessment of Auditory-Cognitive Distraction
11.
Measurement of Situation Awareness for Automobile Technologies of the Future
12.
Situation Awareness in Driving with In-Vehicle Information Systems
13.
Statistical Model for the Frequency of Backward Glancing as a Possible Measure of a Driver's Situation Awareness
14.
Lane Change Test: Preliminary Results of a Multi-Laboratory Calibration Study
15.
4th International Driver Metrics Workshop: Summary and Next Steps
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