Briggs, Gemma F, Hole, Graham J and Turner, Jim A J (2018) The impact of attentional set and situation awareness on dual tasking driving performance. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 57. pp. 36-47. ISSN 1369-8478

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Abstract

The impact of attentional set and situation awareness on event detection and reaction times was investigated in 2 simulated driving experiments. Experiment 1: thirty participants viewed and reacted to thirty driving films containing unexpected items which were either driving congruent or incongruent. Group 1 completed the task without distraction; group 2 completed a concurrent conversation task. Experiment 2: thirty participants viewed and reacted to twenty driving films which contained unexpected yet driving relevant events. Half of the participants completed the task without distraction and half completed a concurrent conversation task. Measures of event detection and reaction time were recorded for both experiments. Compared to undistracted participants, dual-taskers reacted to fewer unexpected events; recorded longer reaction times; and reacted to fewer incongruent and peripheral events, suggesting an enduring attentional set for driving. Dual tasking drivers may adopt a strategy of over-reliance on schema-driven processing when attention is shared between tasks.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	attentional set, schemas, dual tasking, cognitive workload, driving, situation awareness
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Depositing User:	Graham Hole
Date Deposited:	26 Oct 2017 09:02
Last Modified:	15 Sep 2018 01:00
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/70671

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