Study on Driver's Information Processing Pattern Based on Cognitive Psychology

Road traffic system is a man-involved complex system. Human being, especially the driver behavior decides considerable parts of its properties. Driving behavior is an information processing course going on unceasingly, and the study on information processing pattern of drivers forms the key foundation of road traffic safety and automobile safety design. With the development of ergonomics and artificial intelligence research, the traditional driver information processing pattern based on stimulus (S)-organism (O)-response (R) could no longer meet the requirement of technical development. Based on modeling and analyzing of the traffic system, and applying the new cognitive theory, a particular description of the driver information processing is provided. A structure model of how a driver processes the information about a certain cognitive object is put forward, and the function and feature of this model are briefly analyzed. Analyzed result provides criteria for the study of cognition course of drivers and for the development and design of related system.