Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE150100083
Funder
Australian Research Council
Funding Amount
$360,000.00
Summary
Driving as a model for investigating and improving visual search abilities. Visual search is a fundamental skill that is required in several aspects of everyday life. Driving represents an example of high-stakes search: we must constantly scan the environment in order to identify both potential hazards and informational cues, such as traffic lights and signs. While most drivers are experienced (they have been driving for years) they are not experts (they have no special training or skills); this ....Driving as a model for investigating and improving visual search abilities. Visual search is a fundamental skill that is required in several aspects of everyday life. Driving represents an example of high-stakes search: we must constantly scan the environment in order to identify both potential hazards and informational cues, such as traffic lights and signs. While most drivers are experienced (they have been driving for years) they are not experts (they have no special training or skills); this lack of expertise potentially affects search accuracy and, in turn, road safety. This project aims to use and extend existing models of visual search performance in order to explore factors that influence drivers' visual search abilities, and to identify strategies for reducing these perceptual failures and, in turn, road crashes.Read moreRead less