TY - GEN
T1 - The influence of distractions on driver response time
T2 - 51st Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, RMBS 2014 and 51st International ISA Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation Symposium 2014
AU - Bhavaraju, Chaitanya
AU - Patterson, Patrick
AU - Patibanda, Supriya
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Millions of people worldwide are affected by motor vehicle accidents each year, with driver distractions identified as their foremost cause. This paper examines the influence of distraction types on driver response time as well as on neural activity in the brain. Ten subjects participated in this computer based simulation study, with three distraction conditions (Cognitive distraction, Visual distraction and Audio distraction) and a No distraction condition that served as the baseline for comparison. A 64 Channel Neuroscan EEG/ERP system was used to record the neural activity of the subjects. Mean response time increased for all distraction conditions when compared with the baseline. In addition, significant changes were observed in the ERP patterns for the Cognitive and Visual distraction conditions. These results provide insight into the strength of the various distractions with implications for driver training, accident analysis, and accident prevention.
AB - Millions of people worldwide are affected by motor vehicle accidents each year, with driver distractions identified as their foremost cause. This paper examines the influence of distraction types on driver response time as well as on neural activity in the brain. Ten subjects participated in this computer based simulation study, with three distraction conditions (Cognitive distraction, Visual distraction and Audio distraction) and a No distraction condition that served as the baseline for comparison. A 64 Channel Neuroscan EEG/ERP system was used to record the neural activity of the subjects. Mean response time increased for all distraction conditions when compared with the baseline. In addition, significant changes were observed in the ERP patterns for the Cognitive and Visual distraction conditions. These results provide insight into the strength of the various distractions with implications for driver training, accident analysis, and accident prevention.
KW - Cognitive distraction
KW - Driver distraction
KW - Event related potentials
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84904891941&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84904891941
SN - 9781632663917
T3 - 51st Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, RMBS 2014 and 51st International ISA Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation Symposium 2014
SP - 205
EP - 209
BT - 51st Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, RMBS 2014 and 51st International ISA Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation Symposium 2014
PB - ISA - Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society
Y2 - 4 April 2014 through 6 April 2014
ER -