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High levels of Situation Awareness (SA) have been shown to improve performance of an operator in a complex environment. This paper describes an experimental study looking at whether increases in awareness of a non-driving related activity can improve performance in an automotive multitasking condition. 50 participants drove a low-fidelity driving simulator whilst attempting to carry out a number of alternative activities using an in-vehicle interface. The findings demonstrate that increased awareness of the non-driving interface delivers improvements in both driving and non-driving activities. Differences in the driving scenario itself were unable create a difference in perceived workload and SA of the driving activity. Objective measures were sensitive enough to demonstrate effects due to differences in both non-driving task experience and driving scenario under multitasking conditions.
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This work is funded by Jaguar Land Rover Research through the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics at Cambridge University.
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Skrypchuk, L., Langdon, P., Mouzakitis, A., Clarkson, P.J. (2018). How Does Awareness Affect Performance in an Automotive Dual Task Condition?. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 597. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60441-1_39
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