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The Influence of Expertise on Maritime Driving Behaviour
Author(s) -
Godwin Hayward J.,
Hyde Stuart,
Taunton Dominic,
Calver James,
Blake James I. R.,
Liversedge Simon P.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
applied cognitive psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.719
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1099-0720
pISSN - 0888-4080
DOI - 10.1002/acp.2925
Subject(s) - craft , psychology , fixation (population genetics) , task (project management) , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , driving simulator , eye movement , adaptation (eye) , cognitive psychology , simulation , computer science , geography , engineering , demography , medical emergency , medicine , population , archaeology , systems engineering , neuroscience , sociology
Summary We compared expert and novice behaviour in a group of participants as they engaged in a simulated maritime driving task. We varied the difficulty of the driving task by controllling the severity of the sea state in which they were driving their craft. Increases in sea severity increased the size of the upcoming waves while also increasing the length of the waves. Expert participants drove their craft at a higher speed than novices and decreased their fixation durations as wave severity increased. Furthermore, the expert participants increased the horizontal spread of their fixation positions as wave severity increased to a greater degree than novices. Conversely, novice participants showed evidence of a greater vertical spread of fixations than experts. By connecting our findings with previous research investigating eye movement behaviour and road driving, we suggest that novice or inexperienced drivers show inflexibility in adaptation to changing driving conditions. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.