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Understanding overtaking, beyond limitations of the visual system in making spatiotemporal estimations

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Vassilis Papakostopoulos,

Eleana-Georgia Spanou,

Dimitris Nathanael,

Kostas GkikasAuthors Info & Claims

ECCE '10: Proceedings of the 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics

Pages 169 - 172

https://doi.org/10.1145/1962300.1962334

Published: 25 August 2010 Publication History

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Motivation -- To enrich our understanding of the factors that influence the decision to overtake against two way traffic, and this, beyond the limitations of the human visual system in making spatiotemporal estimations. Such understanding may be valuable for the design of future adaptive aid systems.

Research approach -- An explorative naturalistic observation was conducted with a vehicle equipped with three cameras travelling at normal speed for a total distance of 300 km. 40 unobtrusive observations of overtaking episodes were recorded.

Findings/Design -- The data is still at the analysis stage. There is however evidence that before the decision to overtake (i) there is a preparation phase prior to the initiation of the overtaking manoeuvre which deals with the intentions/state of the driver ahead and (ii) frequent users of the particular road will use their specific knowledge and initiate overtaking manoeuvres

Research limitations/Implications -- The study has an explorative character mainly for generating hypotheses and cannot as such prove its findings without subsequent complementary methods.

Originality/Value -- A contribution of the present paper is on the observation method which ensures the collection of data with a high degree of ecological validity.

Take away message -- Spatiotemporal estimation just prior to manoeuvre initiation is only one of the factors influencing the decision to overtake. For understanding naturally occurring overtaking manoeuvres longer time frames of analysis are needed

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ECCE '10: Proceedings of the 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics

August 2010

380 pages

ISBN:9781605589466

DOI:10.1145/1962300

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Mark Neerincx
TNO Human Factors/Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

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