The Relationship between Drivers' Hazard Perception Ability and Cognitive Traits of Empathizing-Systemizing: Pilot Study based on Gaze Response Speed | Chapter 05 | Innovations in Science and Technology Vol. 7
Introduction: Previous research (Danno & Taniguchi, 2015) demonstrated that the Empathy Quotient (EQ) reduced near-miss incident experience and was disturbed by the Systemizing Quotient (SQ) when the Empathy Quotient was low, based on the Empathizing and Systemizing (E-S) model using a web questionnaire survey [1]. It means that drivers with a low EQ and a high SQ had a higher rate of near-miss occurrences. It was stated that drivers with a stronger Empathizing function may have superior danger perception ability, despite the fact that when Empathizing is bad, the Systemizing function may weaken hazard perception ability. The D score (standard SQ (T) score minus standard EQ (T) score) of the near-miss incident was later discovered to have a significant impact on the near-miss occurrence experience.
Method: Those findings suggested that a D score, which is used to categorise "E-S kinds," should be connected to near-miss incident experience, i.e., hazard perception ability. The D ratings were supposed to be related to the cognitive ability to evaluate the mental conditions of other road users and predict their behaviour, or to recognise stable laws in traffic scenarios. The goal of this study was to examine the association between a driver's physical visual attention capacity (gaze movement) and hazard (near-miss incident) perception ability at various D levels. Drivers' Real-time Useful Field of View (rUFOV) [2] was tested in a driving simulator with six traffic scenarios under normal and rapid driving conditions.
The results of seven persons with varying D scores demonstrated that under hurried driving situations, a driver's visual attention ability (gaze movement) diminishes in proportion to their scores.
Conclusion: Because a D score is used to categorise "E-S types," this pilot study raised the possibility that individual differences in cognitive trait utilising the E-S model could be a potential approach for studying the process of hazard perception. Author(S) Details Mikio Danno Toyota Info Technology Center, Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. View Book:- https://stm.bookpi.org/IST-V7/article/view/6062