Decreased Visual Search Behavior in Elderly Drivers during the Early Phase of Reverse Parking, But an Increase during the Late Phase
Abstract
:1. Introduction
- Although the importance of visuospatial information processing in road driving is widely recognized, there is limited evidence during reverse parking. It is still unknown whether visuospatial information processing is presented during parking and how it contributes to backward maneuvering.
- It has already been reported that elderly drivers have less visual search behavior [23,24], and this decreased behavior is related to the risk of accidents during backward maneuvering [25]. The risk directly or indirectly leads to driving cessation and decreased out-of-home activity levels [26]. However, the contribution of visual search behavior in reverse parking to parking performance as well as quality of life (QOL) in elderly drivers has not been adequately discussed.
- To identify the visual search behavior characteristics of elderly drivers during reverse parking and compare these characteristics between elderly and expert drivers.
- To clarify how the characteristics of visual search behavior in reverse parking contribute to parking performance as well as QOL in elderly drivers.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Reverse Perpendicular Parking Task
2.3. Eye-Tracking System
2.4. Conventional Tests
2.5. Statistical Analysis
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
- Elderly drivers had a shorter time of gaze at the vertex of the parking space both in direct vision and reflected in the driver-side mirror during the early phases, resulting in poor parking performance. On the other hand, they increased their gaze time in the passenger-side mirror in the late phase, implying that a compensatory strategy was used to counterbalance the insufficient visual scanning in the previous phases.
- The lower total gaze time in the late phase is related to QOL. This observation could improve our understanding of the characteristics of visual search behavior in parking performance and how this behavior is related to QOL in elderly drivers.
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Expert Drivers (n = 14) | Elderly Drivers (n = 14) | p | |
---|---|---|---|
Age | 42.1 ± 11.4 | 73.7 ± 3.4 | <0.001 |
Gender (male/female) | 12/2 | 2/12 | <0.001 |
BMI 1 | 23.1 ± 3.2 | 24.2 ± 3.8 | 0.53 |
Years of education | 6.0 ± 2.0 | ||
Years of driving license | 50.6 ± 6.7 | ||
Years of driving instructor | 16.0 ± 9.4 | ||
Driving attitude | 6.0 ± 0.9 | ||
Driving performance | 18.0 ± 3.1 | ||
WHOQOL environment 2 | 3.7 ± 0.6 |
Expert Drivers | Elderly Drivers | p | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Total | 11,486 ± 5114 | 9052 ± 7254 | 0.28 | ||
Forward phase | Direct vision | Horizontal scanning | 2820 ± 1766 | 2048 ± 1868 | 0.18 |
Vertex of the parking space | 568 ± 782 | 122 ± 228 | 0.02 | ||
Driver-side mirror | Vertex of the parking space | 198 ± 312 | 46 ± 172 | <0.01 | |
Reciprocating scanning | 152 ± 316 | 46 ± 126 | 0.49 | ||
Sawtooth pattern | 508 ± 1030 | 208 ± 332 | 0.79 | ||
Passenger-side mirror | Reciprocating scanning | 82 ± 304 | 0 ± 0 | 0.32 | |
Sawtooth pattern | 74 ± 156 | 0 ± 0 | 0.07 | ||
Reverse phase | Direct vision | Horizontal scanning | 830 ± 864 | 254 ± 452 | 0.02 |
Driver-side mirror | Vertex of the parking space | 512 ± 798 | 38 ± 108 | 0.01 | |
Reciprocating scanning | 1186 ± 898 | 288 ± 586 | <0.001 | ||
Sawtooth pattern | 1420 ± 1736 | 1726 ± 2024 | 0.75 | ||
Passenger-side mirror | Reciprocating scanning | 8 ± 32 | 0 ± 0 | 0.32 | |
Sawtooth pattern | 772 ± 1066 | 2022 ± 2904 | 0.62 | ||
Straighten the wheel phase | Direct vision | Horizontal scanning | 1280 ± 1098 | 672 ± 810 | 0.12 |
Driver-side mirror | Vertex of the parking space | 28 ± 106 | 0 ± 0 | 0.32 | |
Reciprocating scanning | 374 ± 622 | 198 ± 542 | 0.25 | ||
Sawtooth pattern | 442 ± 634 | 588 ± 1026 | 0.94 | ||
Passenger-side mirror | Reciprocating scanning | 48 ± 176 | 56 ± 182 | 0.55 | |
Sawtooth pattern | 184 ± 558 | 742 ± 1136 | 0.04 | ||
Time to complete parking (s) | 41.0 ± 14.8 | 72.9 ± 52.9 | <0.01 | ||
Number of attempts to park | 1.2 ± 0.6 | 2.6 ± 2.1 | 0.01 | ||
(millisecond) |
Number of Attempts | |
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Total | −0.09 |
Forward phase | −0.56 |
Reverse phase | −0.09 |
Straighten the wheel phase | 0.29 |
Dependent Variable | Adjusted R2 | Independent Variable | Standardized β | p Value |
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QOL Environment | 0.87 | Total gaze time in Straighten the wheel phase | −0.45 | 0.02 |
Driving attitude | 0.62 | <0.01 | ||
Driving performance | 0.58 | <0.01 |
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Kim, S.; Kondo, K.; Noguchi, N.; Akiyama, R.; Ibe, Y.; Yang, Y.; Lee, B. Decreased Visual Search Behavior in Elderly Drivers during the Early Phase of Reverse Parking, But an Increase during the Late Phase. Sensors 2023, 23, 9555. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23239555
Kim S, Kondo K, Noguchi N, Akiyama R, Ibe Y, Yang Y, Lee B. Decreased Visual Search Behavior in Elderly Drivers during the Early Phase of Reverse Parking, But an Increase during the Late Phase. Sensors. 2023; 23(23):9555. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23239555
Chicago/Turabian StyleKim, Siyeong, Ken Kondo, Naoto Noguchi, Ryoto Akiyama, Yoko Ibe, Yeongae Yang, and Bumsuk Lee. 2023. "Decreased Visual Search Behavior in Elderly Drivers during the Early Phase of Reverse Parking, But an Increase during the Late Phase" Sensors 23, no. 23: 9555. https://doi.org/10.3390/s23239555