Measuring Driver Perception : Combining Eye-Tracking and Automated Road Scene Perception

OBJECTIVE: To investigate how well gaze behavior can indicate driver awareness of individual road users when related to the vehicle's road scene perception.

BACKGROUND: An appropriate method is required to identify how driver gaze reveals awareness of other road users.

METHOD: We developed a recognition-based method for labeling of driver situation awareness (SA) in a vehicle with road-scene perception and eye tracking. Thirteen drivers performed 91 left turns on complex urban intersections and identified images of encountered road users among distractor images.

RESULTS: Drivers fixated within 2° for 72.8% of relevant and 27.8% of irrelevant road users and were able to recognize 36.1% of the relevant and 19.4% of irrelevant road users one min after leaving the intersection. Gaze behavior could predict road user relevance but not the outcome of the recognition task. Unexpectedly, 18% of road users observed beyond 10° were recognized.

CONCLUSIONS: Despite suboptimal psychometric properties leading to low recognition rates, our recognition task could identify awareness of individual road users during left turn maneuvers. Perception occurred at gaze angles well beyond 2°, which means that fixation locations are insufficient for awareness monitoring.

APPLICATION: Findings can be used in driver attention and awareness modelling, and design of gaze-based driver support systems.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:64

Enthalten in:

Human factors - 64(2022), 4 vom: 29. Juni, Seite 714-731

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Stapel, Jork [VerfasserIn]
El Hassnaoui, Mounir [VerfasserIn]
Happee, Riender [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

ADAS
Automated driving
Driver support
Gaze
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
SAGAT
Situation awareness

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 27.05.2022

Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1177/0018720820959958

funding:

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM315639598