Understanding the effects of peripheral vision and muscle memory on in-vehicle touchscreen interactions
It is important to gain a better understanding of how drivers interact with in-vehicle touchscreens to help design interfaces to minimise “eyes off road” time. The study aimed to investigate the relative effects of two interaction mechanisms (peripheral vision - PV and muscle memory - MM) shown to b...
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| description | It is important to gain a better understanding of how drivers interact with in-vehicle touchscreens to help design interfaces to minimise “eyes off road” time. The study aimed to investigate the relative effects of two interaction mechanisms (peripheral vision - PV and muscle memory - MM) shown to be relevant to visual behaviour when driving, on the time to press different sized buttons (small 6x6cm, medium 10x10cm, large 14x14cm) on an in-vehicle touchscreen. Twenty-five participants took part in a driving simulator study. They were presented with a single, white, square button on the touchscreen on 24 successive trials. For MM conditions, participants wore a pair of glasses that blocked their peripheral vision and for PV conditions they were asked to keep their focus on the vehicle in front throughout. Results showed that task time gradually decreased for the trials when participants could only use MM. However, overall task time for MM conditions were significantly higher than for those in which PV was utilised, and participants rated the use of MM to be more difficult than PV. In contrast, results suggest that for interfaces that utilise peripheral visual processing the learning effect is not evident and operation times are constant over time. These findings indicate that in-vehicle touch screens should be designed to utilise peripheral vision for making simple button selections with reduced visual demand. |
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| spelling | nottingham-504992020-05-08T09:30:08Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50499/ Understanding the effects of peripheral vision and muscle memory on in-vehicle touchscreen interactions Eren, Ayse L. Burnett, Gary Large, David R. Harvey, Catherine It is important to gain a better understanding of how drivers interact with in-vehicle touchscreens to help design interfaces to minimise “eyes off road” time. The study aimed to investigate the relative effects of two interaction mechanisms (peripheral vision - PV and muscle memory - MM) shown to be relevant to visual behaviour when driving, on the time to press different sized buttons (small 6x6cm, medium 10x10cm, large 14x14cm) on an in-vehicle touchscreen. Twenty-five participants took part in a driving simulator study. They were presented with a single, white, square button on the touchscreen on 24 successive trials. For MM conditions, participants wore a pair of glasses that blocked their peripheral vision and for PV conditions they were asked to keep their focus on the vehicle in front throughout. Results showed that task time gradually decreased for the trials when participants could only use MM. However, overall task time for MM conditions were significantly higher than for those in which PV was utilised, and participants rated the use of MM to be more difficult than PV. In contrast, results suggest that for interfaces that utilise peripheral visual processing the learning effect is not evident and operation times are constant over time. These findings indicate that in-vehicle touch screens should be designed to utilise peripheral vision for making simple button selections with reduced visual demand. Institution of Engineering and Technology 2018-03-16 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50499/1/Eren-Peripheral%20vision-IET-ITS.pdf Eren, Ayse L., Burnett, Gary, Large, David R. and Harvey, Catherine (2018) Understanding the effects of peripheral vision and muscle memory on in-vehicle touchscreen interactions. IET Intelligent Transport Systems . ISSN 1751-9578 https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-its.2017.0229 doi:10.1049/iet-its.2017.0229 doi:10.1049/iet-its.2017.0229 |
| spellingShingle | Eren, Ayse L. Burnett, Gary Large, David R. Harvey, Catherine Understanding the effects of peripheral vision and muscle memory on in-vehicle touchscreen interactions |
| title | Understanding the effects of peripheral vision and muscle memory on in-vehicle touchscreen interactions |
| title_full | Understanding the effects of peripheral vision and muscle memory on in-vehicle touchscreen interactions |
| title_fullStr | Understanding the effects of peripheral vision and muscle memory on in-vehicle touchscreen interactions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Understanding the effects of peripheral vision and muscle memory on in-vehicle touchscreen interactions |
| title_short | Understanding the effects of peripheral vision and muscle memory on in-vehicle touchscreen interactions |
| title_sort | understanding the effects of peripheral vision and muscle memory on in-vehicle touchscreen interactions |
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