Jeffrey D Dawson, Lixi Yu, Kuan-Hua Chen, Michelle Rusch, Amy M Johnson, Nazan S Aksan, Takashi Sunda, Machiko Hiramatsu, Steven W Anderson, Matthew Rizzo
{"title":"NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PREDICTORS OF SAFETY IN URBAN LEFT-TURN SCENARIOS.","authors":"Jeffrey D Dawson, Lixi Yu, Kuan-Hua Chen, Michelle Rusch, Amy M Johnson, Nazan S Aksan, Takashi Sunda, Machiko Hiramatsu, Steven W Anderson, Matthew Rizzo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Left turns at urban intersections can be dangerous, especially when views are obstructed or pedestrians are present. Impairments in driver vision, motor, and cognition functions may further increase left-turn risk. We examined this problem in a simulated environment that included left-turn scenarios to study the driving behaviors of 28 drivers, ages 37 to 88 years, six of whom had \"Useful Field of View\" (UFOV) impairments. Subjects also completed a battery of neuropsychological tests. The simulated drive included an urban section with six left turns in three types of scenarios: 1) a semi truck blocking the view of oncoming traffic, 2) a lead vehicle obstruction, and 3) a pedestrian crossing ahead of the turning driver. Results showed a mean (SD) of 1.46 (1.60) collisions per driver (range 0 to 7), 83% of which occurred at intersections with semi trucks. Far visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, UFOV, Mini Mental State Examination, Trail-Making Test Part B, the Wisconsin Card Sort task, and age were all associated with the total number of collisions (Pearson correlation magnitudes between 0.37 to 0.77; p-values<0.05). Spearman correlations were less significant. Findings indicate that visual obstruction by on oncoming semi-truck is a particularly dangerous left-turn situation.</p>","PeriodicalId":89225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design","volume":"2013 ","pages":"226-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4850494/pdf/nihms779688.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"34446606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lixi Yu, Jeffrey D Dawson, Nazan S Aksan, Jon Tippin, Matthew Rizzo
{"title":"EFFECTS OF ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS ON NATURALISTIC DRIVING IN OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA.","authors":"Lixi Yu, Jeffrey D Dawson, Nazan S Aksan, Jon Tippin, Matthew Rizzo","doi":"10.17077/drivingassessment.1481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17077/drivingassessment.1481","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Reduced visibility and other environmental factors can impair driver ability to respond to roadway hazards. We examined the effects of reduced visibility on naturalistic driving in 66 drivers, including 45 at-risk drivers with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and 21 controls. We analyzed three months of electronic data using \"black box\" recorder technology and assessed the extent to which driver speed, longitudinal acceleration, and lateral acceleration metrics depend on ambient visibility from web-based environmental data archives. We calculated summary driving metrics within 10-second intervals, and reduced these to within-subject means and tested for associations of interest. OSA drivers did not differ from controls with respect to electronic measures or visibility conditions in which they drove. On average, drivers drove slower when visibility was reduced. After controlling for speed, variations in lateral and longitudinal acceleration were positively associated with high-visibility conditions. These findings suggest that drivers exert greater vehicular control when visibility is limited, and that this association is not just due to slower speeds. Weaker relationships between visibility and driving measures in OSA suggest reduced adaptive strategies. Our methods provide a framework for analyzing the effects of other environmental factors on driving, and we provide an additional example using wind speed.</p>","PeriodicalId":89225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design","volume":"2013 ","pages":"142-148"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4217221/pdf/nihms552723.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32797015","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Tucker Krone, Jeffrey D Dawson, Steven W Anderson, Nazan S Aksan, Jon Tippin, Matthew Rizzo
{"title":"USING FEEDBACK FROM NATURALISTIC DRIVING TO IMPROVE TREATMENT ADHERENCE IN DRIVERS WITH OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA.","authors":"J Tucker Krone, Jeffrey D Dawson, Steven W Anderson, Nazan S Aksan, Jon Tippin, Matthew Rizzo","doi":"10.17077/drivingassessment.1465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17077/drivingassessment.1465","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We are studying the effects of individualized feedback upon adherence with therapy (CPAP) in ongoing research aimed at improving driving safety in at-risk individuals with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The feedback includes specific samples of the individual's own naturalistic driving record, both alert and drowsy, and record of CPAP adherence. We report on this methodology, provide data examples of CPAP usage, and show preliminary data on the results in the first eleven drivers who received this intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":89225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design","volume":" ","pages":"43-49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3920595/pdf/nihms-552724.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32114656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nazan Aksan, Mark Schall, Steven Anderson, Jeffery Dawson, Jon Tippin, Matthew Rizzo
{"title":"CAN INTERMITTENT VIDEO SAMPLING CAPTURE INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN NATURALISTIC DRIVING?","authors":"Nazan Aksan, Mark Schall, Steven Anderson, Jeffery Dawson, Jon Tippin, Matthew Rizzo","doi":"10.17077/drivingassessment.1479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17077/drivingassessment.1479","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined the utility and validity of intermittent video samples from black box devices for capturing individual difference variability in real-world driving performance in an ongoing study of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and community controls. Three types of video clips were coded for several dimensions of interest to driving research including safety, exposure, and driver state. The preliminary findings indicated that clip types successfully captured variability along targeted dimensions such as highway vs. city driving, driver state such as distraction and sleepiness, and safety. Sleepiness metrics were meaningfully associated with adherence to PAP (positive airway pressure) therapy. OSA patients who were PAP adherent showed less sleepiness and less non-driving related gaze movements than nonadherent patients. Simple differences in sleepiness did not readily translate to improvements in driver safety, consistent with epidemiologic evidence to date.</p>","PeriodicalId":89225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design","volume":" ","pages":"135-141"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3923573/pdf/nihms552722.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32132104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Catherine C McDonald, Thomas S Seacrist, Yi-Ching Lee, Helen Loeb, Venk Kandadai, Flaura K Winston
{"title":"HEADWAY TIME AND CRASHES AMONG NOVICE TEENS AND EXPERIENCED ADULT DRIVERS IN A SIMULATED LEAD TRUCK BRAKING SCENARIO.","authors":"Catherine C McDonald, Thomas S Seacrist, Yi-Ching Lee, Helen Loeb, Venk Kandadai, Flaura K Winston","doi":"10.17077/drivingassessment.1524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17077/drivingassessment.1524","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Driving simulators can be used to evaluate driving performance under controlled, safe conditions. Teen drivers are at particular risk for motor vehicle crashes and simulated driving can provide important information on performance. We developed a new simulator protocol, the Simulated Driving Assessment (SDA), with the goal of providing a new tool for driver assessment and a common outcome measure for evaluation of training programs. As an initial effort to examine the validity of the SDA to differentiate performance according to experience, this analysis compared driving behaviors and crashes between novice teens (n=20) and experienced adults (n=17) on a high fidelity simulator for one common crash scenario, a rear-end crash. We examined headway time and crashes during a lead truck with sudden braking event in our SDA. We found that 35% of the novice teens crashed and none of the experienced adults crashed in this lead truck braking event; 50% of the teens versus 25% of the adults had a headway time <3 seconds at the time of truck braking. Among the 10 teens with <3 seconds headway time, 70% crashed. Among all participants with a headway time of 2-3 seconds, further investigation revealed descriptive differences in throttle position and brake pedal force when comparing teens who crashed, teens who did not crash and adults (none of whom crashed). Even with a relatively small sample, we found statistically significant differences in headway time for adults and teens, providing preliminary construct validation for our new SDA.</p>","PeriodicalId":89225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design","volume":"2013 ","pages":"439-445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155757/pdf/nihms569591.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32649115","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LATERAL CONTROL IN A DRIVING SIMULATOR: CORRELATIONS WITH NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS AND ON-ROAD SAFETY ERRORS.","authors":"Amy Johnson, Jeffrey Dawson, Matthew Rizzo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Summary: </strong>Driving simulators provide precise information on vehicular position at high capture rates. To analyze such data, we have previously proposed a time series model that reduces lateral position data into several parameters for measuring lateral control, and have shown that these parameters can detect differences between neurologically impaired and healthy drivers (Dawson et al, 2010a). In this paper, we focus on the \"re-centering\" parameter of this model, and test whether the parameter estimates are associated with off-road neuropsychological tests and/or with on-road safety errors. We assessed such correlations in 127 neurologically healthy drivers, ages 40 to 89. We found that our re-centering parameter had significant correlations with five neuropsychological tests: Judgment of Line Orientation (r = 0.38), Block Design (r = 0.27), Contrast Sensitivity (r = 0.31), Near Visual Acuity (r = -0.26), and Grooved Pegboard (r = -0.25). We also found that our re-centering parameter was associated with on-road safety errors at stop signs (r = -0.34) and on-road safety errors during turns (r = -0.22). These results suggest that our re-centering parameter may be a useful tool for measuring and monitoring ability to maintain vehicular lateral control. As GPS-based technology continues to improve in precision and reliability to measure vehicular positioning, our time-series model may potentially be applied as an automated index of driver performance in real world settings that is sensitive to cognitive decline. This work was supported by NIH/NIA awards AG17177, AG15071, and NS044930, and by a scholarship from Nissan Motor Company.</p>","PeriodicalId":89225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design","volume":"2011 ","pages":"45-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3837466/pdf/nihms-372719.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31900228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ergun Uc, Matthew Rizzo, Steven Anderson, Jessica Lawrence, Jeffrey Dawson
{"title":"DRIVER REHABILITATION IN PARKINSON'S DISEASE USING A DRIVING SIMULATOR: A PILOT STUDY.","authors":"Ergun Uc, Matthew Rizzo, Steven Anderson, Jessica Lawrence, Jeffrey Dawson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parkinson's disease (PD) impairs driving performance. In this pilot study, four drivers with PD (selected based on poor road driving performance in the past) participated in a rehabilitation program using a driving simulator. Two different training drives (#1- multiple intersections of varying visibility and traffic load, where an incurring vehicle posed a crash risk, #2- various scenarios on decision making, hazard perception and response) were administered in each session (total 3 sessions once every 1-2 weeks) with immediate feedback after the drives. We observed reduction in crashes in drive #1 and improved scores on drive #2 in the simulator. In addition, 3 subjects showed marked improvements in their total error counts on a standard road test between baseline and post-training sessions, one subject stayed stable. These findings suggest that our simulator training program is feasible and potentially useful in impaired drivers with PD.</p>","PeriodicalId":89225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design","volume":"2011 ","pages":"248-254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3837491/pdf/nihms372906.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31900229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Erwin Boer, Diane Cleij, Jeffrey Dawson, Matthew Rizzo
{"title":"SERIALIZATION OF VEHICLE CONTROL AT INTERSECTIONS IN OLDER DRIVERS.","authors":"Erwin Boer, Diane Cleij, Jeffrey Dawson, Matthew Rizzo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Negotiating intersections is a complex driving task that is particularly difficult for older drivers. This task requires accurate coordination of multiple driving subtasks, placing high demands on perception, attention and motor control that are known to decline with age. We analyzed intersection negotiation behavior in an instrumented vehicle and found striking differences in how drivers of different ages synchronize speed and heading control when turning right. The older drivers performed most of their steering while standing still instead of while accelerating as younger drivers do. This shift from parallel to serial control is a compensatory solution that drivers employ in response to age related decline in perception, cognition, and motor control abilities. Serialization of turning at an intersection reduces attentional demands largely by eliminating the need to switch attention between different driving sub-tasks.</p>","PeriodicalId":89225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design","volume":"2011 ","pages":"17-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3837477/pdf/nihms372707.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31900227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EFFECTS OF FAMILIARITY AND AGE ON DRIVER SAFETY ERRORS DURING WAYFINDING.","authors":"Katherine Read, Lixi Yu, Jamie Emerson, Jeffrey Dawson, Nazan Aksan, Matthew Rizzo","doi":"10.17077/drivingassessment.1448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17077/drivingassessment.1448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wayfinding is a critical skill that enables drivers to navigate from one location to another. Wayfinding abilities decline as individuals age, which may increase older driver reliance on directional cues (e.g. signs) and divert cognitive resources at the expense of vehicle control and safety. Familiarity with an environment can facilitate wayfinding due to previous knowledge of the route. This study examines the role of familiarity in driving safety errors committed during a wayfinding task. Results suggest that age-related driving difficulties can be lessened by familiarity with the environment. The results underscore the need to consider geographical license restrictions in administrative policies aimed at improving older driver safety.</p>","PeriodicalId":89225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design","volume":"2011 ","pages":"569-575"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3837424/pdf/nihms372917.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31900230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kelsey Thompson, Katherine Read, Steven Anderson, Matthew Rizzo
{"title":"SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF REAL-WORLD DRIVING BEHAVIOR FOLLOWING FOCAL BRAIN LESIONS.","authors":"Kelsey Thompson, Katherine Read, Steven Anderson, Matthew Rizzo","doi":"10.17077/drivingassessment.1449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.17077/drivingassessment.1449","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many patients with circumscribed brain injuries, such as those caused by stroke or focal trauma, return to driving after a period of acute recovery. These persons often have chronic residual cognitive deficits that may impact on driving safety, but little is known about their driving behavior in the real world. Extant studies tend to rely on driving simulators or controlled on-road drives. These methods of observation are not able to capture the complexities of the typical driving environment, and may not accurately represent a driver's usual behavior on the road. The current study used a video event-activated data recorder (VEADR) system to observe drivers with focal brain lesions in their normal daily driving environment over a three-month period. In the context of primarily safe driving behavior, we were able to document a number of relatively infrequent and hitherto unobserved high risk behaviors and traffic violations. These findings demonstrate the feasibility and value of sampling real-world driving in neurologic patient populations such as those with focal brain lesions, and highlight the critical importance of evaluating unsafe driving behaviors which may occur with insufficient frequency to be captured by relatively brief simulator or controlled on-road evaluations.</p>","PeriodicalId":89225,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the ... International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design","volume":"2011 ","pages":"576-582"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4191853/pdf/nihms372912.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32742885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}