User Studies on Driving Simulator

In this chapter, we have investigated the use of eye gaze tracking for operating a dashboard in an automotive environment. In our previous studies, the primary task was pointing and selection in a graphical user interface. In the following two studies, we investigated pointing and selection tasks in a dual-task set-up where the primary task was operating a driving simulator. The first study involved two different secondary tasks to compare four different pointing modalities (touchscreen and the fusion strategies discussed in previous chapters). The second study investigated effect of eye gaze tracking on driving performance in two different road conditions. In the following sections, we have described the studies in details.