Research Article

Measuring Distraction at the Levels of Tactical and Strategic Control: The Limits of Capacity-Based Measures for Revealing Unsafe Visual Sampling Models

Table 1

Experiment  1: mean values of glance measures to the text display (standard errors).

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Total glance time (s)209.92 (28.24)249.82 (35.99)
Mean duration (s)*0.97 (0.12)1.46 (0.18)
Standard deviation of durations (s)**0.59 (0.05)1.33 (0.21)
Max duration (s)*3.47 (0.44)8.89 (1.99)
Total frequency of glances230.50 (30.08)174.50 (22.72)
Frequency of >2 s glances*13.38 (3.88)38.75 (7.74)
Frequency of >2 s glances in curves*2.00 (0.68)8.88 (2.22)

*Significant difference at 0.05 level; **significant difference at 0.01 level (t-test, two-tailed, equal variances not assumed).