A4 Refereed article in a conference publication
NeuroCar Virtual Driving Environment Simultaneous Evaluation of Driving Skills and Spatial Perceptual-attentional Capacity
Authors: Izullah FR, Koivisto M, Aho A, Laine T, Hamalainen H, Qvist P, Peltola A, Pitkakangas P, Luimula M
Editors: Peter Baranyi
Conference name: International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications
Publishing place: Wroclaw
Publication year: 2016
Book title : 2016 7TH
Journal name in source: 2016 7TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE INFOCOMMUNICATIONS (COGINFOCOM)
Journal acronym: INT CONF COGN INFO
Series title: International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications
First page : 31
Last page: 36
Number of pages: 6
ISBN: 978-1-5090-2645-6
ISSN: 2375-1312
Abstract
We describe here a simple, inexpensive and effective system for simultaneous evaluation of a subject's driving ability and spatial auditory and visual perception and attention. It consists of a commercial steering wheel and virtual glasses and a program for driving on a two-lane road with curvatures at about 100 km/h speed, and simultaneously reacting by pressing two buttons attached to the steering wheel to randomly delivered uni- and bilateral auditory signals via earphones and light dots appearing in the peripheral visual field. Three different difficulty levels of the task were applied in randomized counterbalanced order, each session of 2 min duration. The results of 25 young (17-45 years) and 20 elderly (47-96 years) healthy participants demonstrate the tendency for simultaneous right side spatial perceptual/attentional bias and the left side driving bias especially in the elderly participants.
We describe here a simple, inexpensive and effective system for simultaneous evaluation of a subject's driving ability and spatial auditory and visual perception and attention. It consists of a commercial steering wheel and virtual glasses and a program for driving on a two-lane road with curvatures at about 100 km/h speed, and simultaneously reacting by pressing two buttons attached to the steering wheel to randomly delivered uni- and bilateral auditory signals via earphones and light dots appearing in the peripheral visual field. Three different difficulty levels of the task were applied in randomized counterbalanced order, each session of 2 min duration. The results of 25 young (17-45 years) and 20 elderly (47-96 years) healthy participants demonstrate the tendency for simultaneous right side spatial perceptual/attentional bias and the left side driving bias especially in the elderly participants.
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