Effect of dynamic central task on the useful field of view : investigation of visual and attentional abilities of elderly drivers
PAUZIE ; GABAUDE
Type de document
COMMUNICATION AVEC ACTES INTERNATIONAL (ACTI)
Langue
anglais
Auteur
PAUZIE ; GABAUDE
Résumé / Abstract
In the context of establishing some type of relations between drivers functional abilities and probability of road accidents, an interesting parameters is the useful field of view -ufov- which takes into account both perceptive and cognitive processes involved in the detection, the localization and the identification of visual information from the external environment. Knowing that aging has a strong effect on these abilities, our study aims at investigating the ufov on a sample of elderly drivers, under dynamic experimental conditions. This approach allows, firstly, to identify relationships between the level of attentional demand complexity of the dynamic central task and the efficiency of the detection task, and, secondly, to specify if detection processes are more efficient in specific localized parts of the field of view.
