John Bloomfield and Kathleen Harder, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Fatigue Detection: Can FatigueDetection Devices Predict the Driving Performance of Sleep-Deprived Drivers? Status: In progress This project is seeking to determine the relationship between sleep deprivation and driving performance and to determine whether impairments in driving performance caused by sleep de...

Long duration of driving is a significant cause of fatigue-related accidents on motorways or major roadways. The fatigue caused by driving for extended periods acutely impairs driver alertness and performance and can compromise transportation safety. This study quantitatively measured the progression of driver fatigue and identified the conservative safe duration of continuous highway driving. ...

This investigation examines the Useful Field of View (specifically the UFOV test), as a predictor of objective measures of driving performance. PubMed and PsycInfo databases were searched to retrieve eight independent studies reporting bivariate relationships between the UFOV test and driving measures (driving simulator performance, state-recorded crashes, and on-road driving). Cumulative meta-...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Methods of assessing driving abilities in the elderly are urgently needed. Although the driving simulator (DS) appears to be a safe and cost-effective method of objectively evaluating driving performance, it may pose adaptation problems for elderly adults. In this study, we examined age-related adaptation deficits on the DS. METHODS Healthy young adults (n=15) and healthy ...

OBJECTIVE A driving simulator study compared the effect of changes in workload on performance in manual and highly automated driving. Changes in driver state were also observed by examining variations in blink patterns. BACKGROUND With the addition of a greater number of advanced driver assistance systems in vehicles, the driver's role is likely to alter in the future from an operator in manu...