Performance Metrics for Assessing Driver Distraction:

The Quest for Improved Road Safety

AUTHOR(S): Gary L. Rupp

Year: Dec 2010 Product Code: R-402 Pages: 264

Price $ 99.95

This book focuses on the study of secondary task demands imposed by in-vehicle devices on the driver while driving. It provides a

mechanism for researchers to evaluate how in-vehicle devices such as navigation systems–as well as other devices such as cell

phones–affect driver distraction &impact safety.

This book, which features the work presented by international experts at the 4th International Driver Metrics Workshop, in June 2008,

offers a summary of the current state of driver metrics research.

Edited by workshop moderator Dr. Gary L. Rupp, the book introduces vital information to support the design of in-vehicle information

and communication systems (IVIS).

Topics covered include:

Driver object and event detection

Peripheral detection tasks (PDT)

Tactile-based detection tasks (TDT)

Developing metrics from lane change test studies

Modified Sternberg method for assessing visual and cognitive load of in-vehicle tasks

Modified Sternberg method for assessing peripheral detection task and lane change tests

The relationship between performance metrics and crash risk

Characterizing driver behaviors observed in naturalist driving studies

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