Predicting drowsiness accidents from personal attributes, eye blinks, and ongoing driving behaviour

Verwey, Willem B. and Zaidel, David M. (2000) Predicting drowsiness accidents from personal attributes, eye blinks, and ongoing driving behaviour. Personality and individual differences, 28 (1). pp. 123-142. ISSN 01918869

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Abstract:	26 participants drove at night for 135 min on a simulated two lane rural road with light traffic and filled out a battery of questionnaires. Six drivers left the road entirely and ten others left the pavement with one or two wheels. Drivers scoring high on an "extraversion-boredom" personality cluster were more likely to depart from the road due to falling asleep. Drivers scoring high on a "disinhibition-honesty" cluster were more likely to cross solid lane markings but did not seem to fall asleep. The best predicting measures for poor driving were the frequency of eye-closures exceeding 1 s and the number of times that time-to-line crossings were below 0.5 s. The participants¿ own judgements on susceptibility to drowsiness was a poor predictor. Dissociation of physiological and subjective measures was observed and explained by a two level information processing model.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 1999 Elsevier Science
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/55538
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00089-6
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