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Driver Workload Measurement
INTRODUCTION
Driver workload measurement is involved in developing and applying methods to measure the total
amount of physical and mental resources and effort due to the tasks that a driver performs under any
given situation. The area is of particular importance as the technological advances are generating
new features to enable the drivers to access and use more information from various carried-in and
in-vehicle devices while driving. Answering the question of what tasks can a driver safely perform
simultaneously in a given situation, thus, assumes that we are able to measure the driver’s total
workload and ...