Does gender make a difference to performing in-vehicle tasks?

摘要: This study describes the gender differences in driving and visual behaviour observed under a high mental workload. The impacts of performing set in-vehicle auditory tasks on 34 drivers were studied an on-road experiment using instrumented vehicle. results show that female participants tended to drive more attentively baseline than males, but they also affected by higher latter effect was identified increase steering wheel adjustments slightly lower task performance. Females adopted conservative coping strategy compensate for workload, as increased headways stable lateral control. By contrast, male did not appear be same way, their eye movements revealed significant gaze concentration less mirror-checking. suggests may aware impact distractions performance behaviour, adopt simplification cope with extra These behaviours strategies can explained only through combination traditional measurements drivers' movements, which provide supplementary measure understanding behaviour. Increased understandings such have implications design safe operation future technologies.