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The impact of attentional set and situation awareness on dual tasking driving performance
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posted on 2023-06-09, 08:27 authored by Gemma F Briggs, Graham Hole, Jim A J TurnerThe 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.
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- Published
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Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and BehaviourISSN
1369-8478Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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57Page range
36-47Department affiliated with
- Psychology Publications
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2017-10-26First Open Access (FOA) Date
2018-09-15First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2017-10-25Usage metrics
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