Title :
Basic Study for Promoting Driving Safety Support Systems among Elderly Drivers
Author :
Nakamura, Yoshihiko ; Yamanaka, Keiji ; Mi Kyong Park ; Kawakami, Mitsuyuki
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Syst. Design, Tokyo Metropolitan Univ., Tokyo, Japan
Abstract :
The aim of this study was to examine whether information support systems are effective in alleviating the effort of driving and helping to avoid accidents in elderly drivers. In this study, the experiment was carried out using driving simulator. Navigation was performed under two test conditions: information support was either present or absent. As a result, information support relating to static items such as road signs and traffic lights during driving only has a small effect, and could potentially be a cause of accidents due to information overload.
Keywords :
digital simulation; driver information systems; navigation; road accidents; road safety; accident avoidance; driving safety support systems; driving simulator; elderly drivers; information overload; information support system; navigation; road signs; static items; traffic lights; Accidents; Monitoring; Navigation; Roads; Safety; Senior citizens; Vehicles; driving safety support systems; driving simulator; elderly drivers;
Conference_Titel :
Biometrics and Kansei Engineering (ICBAKE), 2013 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
DOI :
10.1109/ICBAKE.2013.21
