Car Drivers' Pattern of Eye Fixations on the Road and in the Laboratory.

摘要

Car drivers' eye fixations were registrated when driving a car on the road and when viewing a slide in the laboratory which shows the same traffic situation. Even when the Ss of the second group were instructed to observe the presented slide as if they were driving there, they fixated their eyes on well defined targets with quite different frequencies than those Ss who actually drove the car on the road. Furthermore, in the laboratory there was a tendency toward prolonged fixation times as compared to on the road driving condition. The results suggest that the Ss on the road fixated more task oriented targets and picked up also more information than their counterpartners in the laboratory. (Author)