SOUTHEAST REGION

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Developing Visual and Mental Awareness Skills

• SOUTHEAST REGION
• ADTSEA SPRING CONFERENCE
• MYRTLE BEACH, 2006

Terry L. Kline, Ed. D. Traffic Safety
Institute Eastern Kentucky University
Download this presentation from ADTSEA website
http//www.adtsea.org
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Vision and Mental Awareness

• Seeing/Searching Techniques
• Mental Awareness and Perception
• In-car Habits

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Driving is Unique Mental Task

• Consider this Driving is one of a very few
  tasks that the person can not see where they are
  located
• If a driver tries to figure out where they are on
  the roadway they will be someplace different by
  the time they can make a speed or position
  adjustment.
• Therefore, a driver can not drive in the present,
  so he/she needs to use information from the
  future or past to operate the vehicle.

The novice driver needs to develop a unique set
of visual and mental awareness skills in order to
make reduced-risk driving decisions develop into
safe performance habits.
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Effects of Misperceptions
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Brain Gains Information from
Focus Vision
Central Vision (UFOV)
Peripheral Vision
Peripheral Vision Motion and Color
Changes Dependent on field of view
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Mental and Perceptual Awareness

• Input-Process-Output
• (S)IPDE Process
• Time Relevant
• Based on past experience
• and knowledge base

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Developing Visual Skills

• Searching Skills (Search, Identify Process)
• Smith System- Aiming High , Eyes Moving, Getting
  Big Picture
• Perceptual Driving System- Scan, Path of Travel,
  Space Cushion
• Zone Control System- Look for LOS/POT
  Restrictions
• SEE System- Search for Open LOS/POT

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Developing Awareness Skills

• Evaluate (Predict Process)
• Smith- Big Picture, A Way Out of Situation
• Perceptual- 2 sec/4 sec/12 sec, hazard
  criticality
• Zone Control- changing or closed zones
• SEE- Evaluate space for speed or position
  adjustments

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Developing Awareness Skills

• Evaluate (Decide Process)
• Smith- Leave Yourself an Out
• Perceptual- minimize, separate, compromise
• Zone Control- check for open space
• SEE- Evaluate space for speed or position
  adjustments

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Responding to Problems

• Execute a response (Execute Process)
• Smith- Make Sure Others See You
• Perceptual- communicate, speed, or position
  change
• Zone Control- communicate, speed, or position
  change
• SEE- communication, speed, or position change

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Vision and Perception

• Following Interval
• Smith- 1 car for 10mph ( now 2-3 seconds)
• Perceptual- 2 sec minimum, 3 or more seconds
  based on conditions
• Zone Control- gaining 4 seconds minimum or more
  based on conditions
• SEE- use a 4 second minimum and adjust for
  weather conditions
• National Safety Council- use 3 second minimum
  plus I sec for each mitigating factor

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Perception

• Being Perceptive is a Learned Process
• Perceiving Problems Takes Time
• Managing Visual Inputs Is Critical
• Managing Time and Space is Primary Decision Tool

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Language Example

• Saville, Der Dago
• Tousin busis inaro
• Nocho, Demis troux
• Summit cowsin
• Summit doux

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Language Example

• Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh
  Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the
  ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng
  is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit
  pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can
  sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we
  do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod
  as a wlohe.

Deciatsr
Disaster
Disaster
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Language of Driving
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Language of Driving
NO PASSING ZONE
STOP
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Read This!
Buckle Up For For Safety
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Read This!

• What did it say?
• Did you see...
• Buckle Up For For Safety
• Why?

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Focal Vision at Work
Visual Memory Imprint
DOTS FOLLOW YOUR FOCAL VISION.. TRY STARING AT
CENTER BOX ONLY to stop movement
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Useful Field of View
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Mental Awareness
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Your Brain Sees?
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Your Brain Sees?
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Mental Awareness
If I refer to former President Clinton What does
your mental awareness tell you about this
photograph ?
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What Did You See?
Do you see a Horse and Rider ?
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Visual Imagery Fools Brain Perception
COUNT THE LEGS
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Visual Imagery Fools Brain Perception

• What Do You See?
• The Old Woman or..
• The Young Girl

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Visual Imagery Fools Brain Perception
1 2 3
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Vision and Mental Awareness

• Central Space Area
• True Blind Spot
• Sightline Limitations

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Vision and Mental Awareness

• Rear and Side View Mirrors
• Mirror Blind Spot
• Sightline Limitations

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Blindzone-Glare Elimination (BGE) Mirror Method

• Move Side View Mirrors
• Move Side Mirrors 15 degrees to outside
• Head against left side window
• Head in center of car

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BGE Mirror Settings
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Developing Visual and Mental Awareness Skills

• SOUTHEAST REGION
• ADTSEA SPRING CONFERENCE
• MYRTLE BEACH, 2006

Terry L. Kline, Ed. D. Traffic Safety
Institute Eastern Kentucky University
Download this presentation from ADTSEA website
http//www.adtsea.org