Psychological diagnostics of drivers using virtual reality and eye-tracking
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Traffic psychology examination (TPE) currently does not offer effective tools for mapping some key psychological constructs used in the process of driving a motor vehicle, eg situational awareness or hazard perception. Current diagnostic methods, which generally seek to record the level of situational awareness in the traffic context (eg Adaptive Tachistoscopic Perception Test - ATAVT), are limited not only with regard to the informative value of the test (eg environmental validity), but also with regard to limited scalability, where it is necessary to take into account, for example, the cultural context or the need to create language mutations. At the same time, the developed ability to perceive risks while driving is just one of the most important predictors of safe driving, and therefore safe road traffic. The paper discusses and demonstrates the possibilities of psychodiagnostics aimed at effectively determining the level of situational awareness of the driver using modern technologies, namely with the help of increasingly common virtual reality (VR) technology associated with eye-tracking. The discussed platform represents a comprehensive, dynamic and ecologically valid virtual simulation, on the basis of which it is possible to accurately predict the driver's performance in real traffic using automatic recording of human behavioral and physiological reactions. Due to a number of advantages, the proposed approach has the potential to complement current form of TPE. |