Study on front attention position presentation method at the time of the driving

Abstract

This paper presents a new warning method for controlling drivers' sensitivity for recognizing hazardous factors in the driving environment. The method is based on a visual warning mark in peripheral vision that is called an ambient warning. In this study, the presentation of ambient visual cue was investigated as a soft warning without feeling disagreeableness that is nuisance and distraction of visual warning. The results of many experiments performed with a 27 inch monitor display show that the response time for detecting a flashing mark tended to decrease when a ambient mark was shown in advance. Author suggests that priming effects are observed in ambient visual marks without feeling nuisance to warning information-