Change
blindness is an important phenomenon where a driver may skip some information
in the driving scene due to its rapidly changing and dynamic character. The
purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of simultaneous emotions and
driving tasks on change blindness. Twenty college students with driving
licenses were taken as the study subjects. The experimental program involved
two types of emotions combined with four driving tasks. Showing 10 minutes
movie to arouse two types of emotions was one methodology and using E-prime
software to show one-shot paradigm of change blindness was the other. The results
show that emotion and driving tasks affect change blindness. The subjects took
longer time to perceive the changes in the mood of negative emotion than they
did in the mood of positive emotion. The level of change detection was found to
decrease after the driving tasks were performed. Furthermore, the tasks with
traffic signs showed more change blindness than those without traffic signs.
The groups performing the turning-right tasks exhibited more change blindness
than those performing the going-ahead tasks. The practical contributions of the
present study are discussed in relation to the human-oriented design of traffic
signs.
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