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Towards a New Alternative to Assess the Validity of Driving Simulators:

Authors:
Christophe Deniaud
Vincent Honnet
Benoit Jeanne
Daniel Mestre

Keywords: Attention; Presence; Driving Simulator.

Abstract:
In this paper, we propose a new approach of the behavioral validity’s assessment of driving simulators. Our ambition is to find a way of measuring “presence” to use it as a measure for ecological validity in driving simulators. The underlying assumption is that a person experiencing a strong sense of presence in the virtual environment will react in this environment as if it would be a real one. We propose to measure "presence" by measuring “attention” toward the driving task". Our objective is to demonstrate that the higher the subject's attention required by the primary driving task will be, the more the spatial presence will be felt. In the experiment, we tried to vary "attention" by adding a dual task and by adding traffic and measure driving performance and subjective "presence" (MEC-SPQ: Measurement, Effects, Conditions-Spatial Presence Questionnaire). The main result is a lack of congruence between subjective and behavioral measures.

Pages: 97 to 102

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4537

ISBN: 978-1-61208-371-1

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014