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Car manufacturers now conduct eye tracking studies to calculate the "eyes off the road" time when drivers interact with screens, buttons, sliders etc to complete a number of tasks.
https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-finds-that-buttons-in-cars-are-safer-and-quicker-to-use-than-touchscreens
As a HUman Factors Engineer I can tell you that the question is not how we as humans contribute to accidents but how bad design causes us to make the wrong decision. So the question is how do we design the user interface for safety. For example, if a pilot makes a mistake and crashes a plane then 'HUman Error' is not the end of the investigation. Indeed it is only the beginning. Why did the pilot make a decision that led to a tragic accident? That is the question. If it is not addressed the accident will happen again A good read for more info (there is a PDF online) is 'The field guide to understanding human error' by Dekker
The company that invented it was Marmon. They entered a car in the Indi 500 in the early 1900s The guy who sat next to the driver would look backward to see what the competition was doing. One day he got sick so they installed a rear view mirror.
I took delivery of a Dyson air purifier and humidifier. I set it up but couldn't work out how to set up the wireless function. I read the IFU carefully and went online to youtube people who demonstrate the wireless setup but I still couldnt do it. So I called the helpline and gave them the serial number. 'Oh I'm sorry but most of the models we sent out in 2022 did not have a wireless function due to the chip shortage.'. I think that gives you some idea as to this problem when Dyson are just saying forget about it and send out with no wireless chip. How is this affecting the car industry and SEE?
FYI They said they would take it back and refund. But I figure the only time I would use it was turning it on remotely half an hour before I leave the pub! :)
Augmented Reality (AR) provides additional information (augmented) over and above what is there. Google Maps is a form of AR. It provides you with a map with place and street names. But it will also give shop and office names and when you move the pointer over them it will provide you with more detailed pop up information. With SM you have the possibility to have a driver look at a building that they pass and info on a head-up display, for example, will provide them with more information on what it is and what is in there. This relies on accurate eye-tracking info.
One of my issues is that this technology will tell you what the eye is tracking but not what the person is necessarily attending to. As a HF Engineer I used this to see what people were looking at on a website. It provides a heatmap. That is, it will overlay the website with blobs on the relevant parts of the website that the eye is tracking. Larger blobs indicate what they looked at longest. However, often when I asked people why they looked at a particular part of the website they would tell me they didnt look at it....even though there was a blob. It turns out that this is not surprising as most processing is actually unconscious. Think about your drive home where you are focussed on the road ahead. However if something pops up in your peripheral vision unexpectedly you will be very aware of it even though you were not consciously attending to it. There is a phenomenon in brain damaged patients called Blindsight which demonstrates this which I wont go into.
Getting to the point, how does a system know what your are consciously attending to and what you are not. With a pointing device you are very specifically locating a position on the map whereas the eye is moving all over the place. There is the potential to have pop ups randomly coming up when you don't want them. But I guess this is why SM employ HF Engineers. My twopence worth.
Let's admit it. We all said that once we say dollar signs in a RNS the share price would rocket. Well, it didn't. I also said, I think, that it would be worth a quid by end year. Way wrong! However, although I am not the person closely associated with Michael Brown, I am sticking with him anyway! Still holding around 420,000 averaging at 5p
Several mentions :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_monitoring_system
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/postponeearnings.asp
Paul McG Laying out the SM shop window??
'So much going on at Seeing Machines, Auto RFQ's coming in at an unprecedented level.. Fleet business growth through current channels, new channels and enterprise customers, etc etc
I was at an Ergonomics conference in Washington 3/4 years ago and the head of the NTSB at that time gave a keynote. She told the story of how her father, when she was young, ran over a fox in the car without slamming on the brakes. She asked him why. He said 'cause if I had you would have slammed into the dashboard and you sister who sitting on my knee would have hit the windscreen'. No seatbelts in the car. We have come along way