Parkinson’s disease affects gaze behavior and performance of drivers

Gisele C. Gotardi; Fabio A. Barbieri; Rafael O. Simão; Vinicius A. Pereira; André M. Baptista; Luiz F. Imaizumi; Gabriel Moretto; Martina Navarro; Paula F. Polastri; Sérgio T. Rodrigues

doi:10.1080/00140139.2022.2028901

Parkinson’s disease affects gaze behavior and performance of drivers

Gisele C. Gotardi
, Fabio A. Barbieri
, Rafael O. Simão
, Vinicius A. Pereira
, André M. Baptista
, Luiz F. Imaizumi
, Gabriel Moretto
, Martina Navarro
, Paula F. Polastri
, Sérgio T. Rodrigues

Universidade de São Paulo

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of PD and aging on gaze behavior and performance of drivers in a simulated task. Ten drivers with PD, ten neurologically healthy older drivers, and ten neurologically healthy younger adult drivers were asked to drive in a car simulator for three minutes, maintaining car speed between 100 and 120 km/h and avoiding collisions. Driver’s eye movements were recorded. Drivers with PD had more collisions and spent less time driving within the speed zone than the younger-drivers. Drivers with PD performed an increased number of fixations towards task-irrelevant areas of the visual scene and higher visual entropy, indicating a more random gaze behavior. Older drivers restricted their visual search to the lane area in order to detect threat-related stimuli. PD led to drops in performance of drivers in the car simulator.

Parkinson’s disease (PD) and aging process caused a drop in driving performance. Drivers with PD made fewer fixations on task-relevant information and showed higher visual entropy than young adults. Older drivers restricted their visual search to the lane than other areas of interest.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1302-1311
Number of pages	10
Journal	Ergonomics
Volume	65
Issue number	9
Early online date	24 Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/00140139.2022.2028901
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2022

Keywords

Parkinson's disease
aging
visual entropy
eye movements
driving simulator

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Parkinson's disease affects gaze behavior and performance of drivers
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Ergonomics on 13/1/2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00140139.2022.2028901.
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