The Development of an Integrated Eye Tracker, Driving Simulator and Virtual Acoustic Environment

Fisher 在美国国家科学基金会和工业合作者的支持下，Donald Fisher博士和他的研究团队将开发一种最先进的基于视频的眼动仪，一种研究级驾驶模拟器和一种虚拟声学环境，这些都是完全集成的。该系统由应用科学实验室开发的先进眼动仪、Illusion Technologies Incorporated开发的驾驶模拟器和模仿或模拟汽车混响特性的声学环境组成。计划中的系统将取代目前的工具，利用“移动窗口”的范例，并允许在心理语言学，阅读理解，视觉扫描和场景理解的广泛研究。 将使用水平驾驶模拟器和音响设备进行的研究和研究培训将很好地补充和扩展正在进行的实验室活动。这将是第一次，允许研究的基本认知过程中复杂的，动态的显示使用窗口和边界范例，已成功地采用在更简单的情况下。要检查的潜在行为的范围也将扩大。研究人员和心理学和通信障碍可以使用眼睛和头部跟踪设备来研究声音定位和检测。运动科学家可以利用驾驶反应的详细信息来研究随着年龄增长运动过程的减缓。增加对复杂动态显示器的视觉扫描的理解，以及在现实的、高度紧张的条件下的动态决策也将是可能的。在更实际的层面上，提出的基础研究将为车载碰撞避免装置的开发迈出第一步。

Fisher With support from the National Science Foundation and industrial collaborators, Dr. Donald Fisher and his research team will develop a state-of-the-art video based eye tracker, a research level driving simulator and a virtual acoustic environment which are fully integrated with one another. The system consists of an advanced eye tracker to be developed by Applied Sciences Laboratory, a driving simulator developed by Illusion Technologies Incorporated and an acoustic environment which mimics or simulates the reverberant characteristics of an automobile. The planned system would supersede a current instrument which makes use of a "moving window" paradigm, and which permits a wide range of research in psycholinguistics, reading comprehension, visual scanning and scene comprehension. The research and research training that will be undertaken with the level driving simulator and sound equipment will nicely complement and extend the ongoing laboratory activities. It would, for the first time, allow the study of the basic cognitive processes in complex, dynamic displays using window and boundary paradigms that have been successfully employed in more simple situations. The range of potential behaviors to be examined will also expand. Researchers and psychology and communications disorders can use the eye and head tracking equipment to study sound localization and detection. Exercise scientists can use detailed information on driving responses to study the slowing of motor processes with advancing age. Increased understanding of visual scanning of complex dynamic displays and dynamic decision making in realistic, highly stressful conditions will also be possible. On a more practical level, the basis research proposed will provide a first step in the development of in-vehicle collision avoidance devices.