Studies of human attention induction using audio visual stimuli and its effect on human mental load

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26330241
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Human interface and interaction
• Research Institution: Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
• Principal Investigator: Utsumi Akira 株式会社国際電気通信基礎技術研究所, 知能ロボティクス研究所, 研究室長 (80395152)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 注意誘導 / 心的負荷 / 視聴覚刺激 / 周辺視 / 眼球運動

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project has investigated attention control methods using audio and peripheral vision stimuli. Peripheral vision is known to have a superior motion-perception capability. Since central vision is usually used for a primary visual task, it would be quite useful if we could control one's attention by providing assistive information through cues of audio and peripheral vision without interfering with the primary task. We have confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed method through experiments. Furthermore, we examined the relationship between visual cognition difficulty and target-tracking eye movements. Observed gaze movement properties and the difficulty of target visual cognition have a linear relationship, suggesting the possibility of more precise estimation of human target cognition based on them.

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