Effects of Driving Situation and Driving Experience on Eye Movements

Yumiko Shinohara; Yukiko Nishizaki

doi:10.52731/iee.v3.i3.216

Yumiko Shinohara Kyoto Institute of Technology
Yukiko Nishizaki Kyoto Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.52731/iee.v3.i3.216

Keywords: driving experience, driving in a foreign country, eye movements, saccade

Abstract

A previous investigation of the effects of familiarity with the driving situation on driver’s eye movements assessed differences in eye movements between novice and expert drivers when driving in familiar and unfamiliar situations. The findings indicated that familiarity with the driving situation had a greater influence on expert drivers than on novice drivers. We assessed the validity of those results using number of saccades and gaze position. We found that the mean number of saccades elicited in the unfamiliar driving situation was significantly greater in the expert group than in the novice group. Thus, we confirmed the effects of familiarity with the situation and driving experience on driver’s eye movements.

Author Biographies

Yumiko Shinohara, Kyoto Institute of Technology

Yumiko Shinohara is a master’s degree student of Graduate School of Information Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan. Her research interest is individual differences, particularly cultural differences, in visual perception when driving.

Yukiko Nishizaki, Kyoto Institute of Technology

Yukiko Nishizaki, PhD. is a faculty of information and human sciences at Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT), Japan. After working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Nissan Research Center, she joined KIT in 2015. Her main research interest is cognitive psychology, especially individual differences in cognitive functions during human- machine / social interaction.

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