Interface between the driver and collision warning systems: lessons in complexity

John S. Wallace; Donald L. Fisher

doi:10.1117/12.267157

17 February 1997 Interface between the driver and collision warning systems: lessons in complexity

John S. Wallace, Donald L. Fisher

Proceedings Volume 2902, Transportation Sensors and Controls: Collision Avoidance, Traffic Management, and ITS; (1997) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.267157
Event: Photonics East '96, 1996, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

Three experiments were performed with examined the applicability of the Hick-Hyman law to the design of an auditory interface for a vehicle collision avoidance warning system. All trials used a single broadband noise signal emanating from one of a subset of six loudspeakers equally spaced around the subject in the azimuthal plane. Both the size of the sub-set and the balance of relative probabilities from speaker to speaker were altered to evaluate the relationship between information content and the dependent variable, choice reaction time. Choice reaction time was found to be related to the information content of the sound stimulus in all cases. It was also found to be related to the presence of pairs of speakers which were symmetrically opposed to one another in front of and behind the subject.

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John S. Wallace and Donald L. Fisher "Interface between the driver and collision warning systems: lessons in complexity", Proc. SPIE 2902, Transportation Sensors and Controls: Collision Avoidance, Traffic Management, and ITS, (17 February 1997); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.267157

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