Driving experience and special skills reflected in eye movements

Roberts Paeglis; Kristaps Bluss; Aigars Atvars

doi:10.1117/12.892530

16 September 2011 Driving experience and special skills reflected in eye movements

Roberts Paeglis, Kristaps Bluss, Aigars Atvars

Proceedings Volume 8155, Infrared Sensors, Devices, and Applications; and Single Photon Imaging II; 815516 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892530
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2011, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

When driving a vehicle, people use the central vision both to plan ahead and monitor their performance feedback (research by Donges, 1978 [1], and after). Discussion is ongoing if making eye movements do more than gathering information. Moving eyes may also prepare the following body movements like steering. Different paradigms exist to explore vision in driving. Our perspective was to quantify eye movements and fixation patterns of different proficiency individuals, a driving learner, a novice, an experienced driver and a European level car racer. Thus for safety reasons we started by asking them to follow a video tour through a known city, remote from an infrared eye tracker sampling at 250 Hz. We report that gaze strategy of an experienced driver differs qualitatively from that of an automobile sports master. Quantitative differences only were found between the latter and a driving learner or a novice driver. Experience in a motor action provides skills different from sports training. We are aiming at testing this finding in real world driving.

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Roberts Paeglis, Kristaps Bluss, and Aigars Atvars "Driving experience and special skills reflected in eye movements", Proc. SPIE 8155, Infrared Sensors, Devices, and Applications; and Single Photon Imaging II, 815516 (16 September 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.892530

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