Chapter 7I thought you were driving!

DOI: 10.1201/9781003374084-9

OVERVIEW

Having covered a lot of ground, it is nearly time for another rest stop on our journey. The final chapter for this stage presents the culmination of our series of experiments developing malleable attentional resources theory (MART). Building on the work so far, which has shown that attentional capacity shrinks in line with reductions in mental workload, we now examine the consequences of such shrinkage for performance by testing responses to an automation failure event. Research on reaction times to failures of different levels of automation is reviewed before going on to describe a study comparing learners and experienced drivers in the Southampton Driving Simulator. ...

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