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Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy ›› 2023, Vol. 14 ›› Issue (4): 431-438.DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1674-8484.2023.04.004

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Driver visual load and operating characteristics under a human- machine interface mode with full-touch-screen

WANG Chang(), WANG Yifei(), GE Zhenzhen*(), ZHAO Xia, LI Zhao   

  1. School of Automobile, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710064, China
  • Received:2022-12-26 Revised:2023-05-08 Online:2023-08-31 Published:2023-08-31

Abstract:

Two real road driving experimental platforms, the one with full-touch-screen Human-Machine Interface (HMI) and the other with non-full touch-screen HMI, were established to analyze the potential impact of an HMI mode with full-touch-screen on driving risk. And collected and analyzed the data on driver’s sight transfer and on hand transfer during drivers completing the same secondary task using different HMI. The results show that the total time of staring at the central control platform increases by 19.8%, 102.5%, and 39.1% compared to the traditional mode respectively, when using a full-touch-screen to perform secondary tasks such as turning on the air conditioning, adjusting the air volume, and blowing the front windshield; There is an exponential increasing relationship between the total time required to focus on the central control platform and the operation number required to complete the secondary tasks; Drivers spend more gaze time on each operation when using a full-touch-screen to perform the secondary tasks with more than 3.5 operations. These results provide a reference for the distraction evaluation of full-touch-screen HMI.

Key words: vehicle active safety, driving safety, driving distraction, human-machine interface (HMI), full touch screen, visual load

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