{"id":12122,"date":"2019-10-02T16:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=12122"},"modified":"2019-10-02T16:45:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T23:45:35","slug":"12122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/?p=12122","title":{"rendered":"Eye-tracking technology could help make driving safer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New uses of eye-tracking technology to help drivers avoid vehicle collision and rear-end accidents.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cKeep your eyes on the road.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the recent advances in vehicle-assisted safety technology and in-car displays, this old adage has a new meaning, thanks to two new applications of eye-tracking technology developed by researchers at the University of Missouri.<\/p>\n

Designing a better collision avoidance warning <\/strong><\/p>\n

Observing how someone\u2019s eyes change\u2014specifically the pupil\u2014while they respond to an alert given by a vehicle collision avoidance warning could one day help scientists design safer systems.<\/p>\n

\u201cPrior to a crash, drivers can be easily distracted by an alert from a collision avoidance warning\u2014a popular feature in new vehicles\u2014and we feel this could be a growing problem in distraction-related vehicle crashes,\u201d said Jung Hyup Kim, an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing systems engineering in the MU College of Engineering<\/a>. \u201cTherefore, a two-way communication channel needs to exist between a driver and a vehicle. For instance, if a driver is aware of a possible crash, then the vehicle does not have to warn the driver as much. However, if a vehicle provides an alert that, by itself, creates a distraction, it could also cause a crash.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kim and Xiaonan Yang, a graduate student at MU, watched how people\u2019s pupils changed in response to their physical reactions to a collision avoidance warning by a vehicle-assisted safety system. Researchers believe they have enough data to begin the next step of developing a two-way communication model.<\/p>\n

Evaluating rear-end accidents from a driver\u2019s perspective<\/strong><\/p>\n

A person\u2019s pupil could also help scientists find a way to decrease distracted driving crashes through a first-hand perspective into a driver\u2019s behavior, according to Kim and Rui Tang, a graduate student at MU. Using a driving simulator at the MU College of Engineering, the researchers evaluated a driver\u2019s physical behavior in real-time by focusing on the driver\u2019s eyes as the crash happened.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw the size of a person\u2019s pupil changed depending on the behavioural response to the severity of the accident,\u201d said Kim. \u201cNow, we want to take that data, find common patterns and build a model to test how we could help decrease distracted-driving crashes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The conference papers, Evaluating rear-end vehicle accident using pupillary analysis in a driving similar environment<\/em>, and Pupillary response and EMG predict upcoming responses to collision avoidance warning<\/em>, were presented at the 2019 International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cKeep your eyes on the road.\u201d With the recent advances in vehicle-assisted safety technology and in-car displays, this old adage has a new meaning, thanks to two new applications of eye-tracking technology developed by researchers at the University of Missouri. Designing a better collision avoidance warning Observing how someone\u2019s eyes change\u2014specifically the pupil\u2014while they respondRead Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-12122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-slider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12127,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12122\/revisions\/12127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westerndriver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}