Driving Simulator
A driving simulator was brought to the Psychology Department in 2015, and is located on the 1st floor of the Humanities Annex.
Led by Professor Derrick Watson, the Psychology Driving Simulator has been used for testing which has produced some of the following pieces of research: |
- Ritchie, Owain T., Watson, Derrick G., Griffiths, Nathan, Misyak, Jennifer B., Chater, Nick, Xu, Zhou and Mouzakitis, Alexandros (2019) How should autonomous vehicles overtake other drivers? Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 66 . pp. 406-418. doi:10.1016/j.trf.2019.09.016
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Chater, Nick, Misyak, Jennifer B., Watson, Derrick G., Griffiths, Nathan and Mouzakitis, Alexandros (2018) Negotiating the traffic : can cognitive science help make autonomous vehicles a reality? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22 (2). pp. 93-95. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.11.008
- Gunnell, Daniel, Kunar, Melina A. and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) Having a phone conversation delays but does not disrupt cognitive mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology : Applied, 26 (2). pp. 199-217. doi:10.1037/xap0000239
- Gunnell, Daniel, Kunar, Melina A., Norman, Danielle and Watson, Derrick G. (2019) The hazards of perception : evaluating a change blindness demonstration within a real-world driver education course. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4 . 15. doi:10.1186/s41235-019-0165-4
The research reflects our growing involvement with partners such as JLR and other external companies, as well as governmental and non-governmental bodies beyond academia.
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