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 2

Experiment  2: mean values of glance measures to the text display (standard errors).

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Total glance time (s)*157.08 (8.61)255.08 (32.44)
Mean duration (s)1.41 (0.12)1.83 (0.21)
Standard deviation of durations (s)0.49 (0.06)0.97 (0.23)
Max duration (s)*2.97 (0.34)6.15 (1.29)
Total frequency of glances116.44 (9.38)139.67 (9.70)
Frequency of >2 s glances*13.33 (5.15)36.56 (8.68)
Frequency of >2 s glances in curves*2.33 (1.64)12.67 (4.30)

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