Useful field of view in simulated driving: Reaction times and eye movements of drivers.

To examine the spatial distribution of a useful field of view (UFOV) in driving, reaction times (RTs) and eye movements were measured in simulated driving. In the experiment, a normal or mirror-reversed letter "E" was presented on driving images with different eccentricities and directions from the current gaze position. The results showed significantly slower RTs in the upper and upper left directions than in the other directions.

Comparing visual performance and useful field of view of older and younger drivers - biomed 2009.

Older licensed drivers are involved in more crash deaths than any other age group. A critical issue in reducing these accident numbers is to improve our understanding of the association between the visual performance of these older drivers and their useful field of view (UFOV) when driving. We estimated driver saccadic amplitudes and fixation durations for ten different traffic scenarios using a driving simulator.