[visionlist] Registration Open: The Eye and The Auto International Conference

[Cynthia Owsley]

Registration is now open for the Eye and The Auto International Conference. An exciting list of confirmed presentations are listed below.

Conference Dates:
September 12-14, 2011

Conference Location:
GM Learning Center at the Renaissance Center World Headquarters of General Motors
On the River Walk Along the Detroit River
USA

The Eye and The Auto, sponsored by the Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology, is an international research conference dedicated to improving our understanding of the relationship between vision and the safe operation of motor vehicles.  Sessions will be devoted to a variety of topics including but not limited to: visual processing, visual attention; human factors and design issues relevant to the driver; roadway and vehicle design; vision impairment, eye conditions and driver safety.  Research on policies that address vision and driving and on driver assessment and rehabilitation strategies for visually impaired drivers will also be addressed.  This meeting will be of keen interest to professionals from the field of driver performance and safety, including vision and cognitive scientists, engineers, epidemiologists, clinicians, designers, policy specialists, and the media.

To Register for The Eye and The Auto, go to:
www.eyeson.org
Then click on "Research: The Eye and The Auto"

List of Presenters:

Keynote Lecturers:
Michael Land PhD, Sussex Center for Neuroscience, University of Sussex, UK:  "Where We Look When Driving A Car".

Jan Aase, Director of GM Research and Development, General Motors: "HMI for Semi Autonomous Vehicles".

Podium Presentations:
Joanne Wood PhD, Queensland University of Technology: "Characterizing On-Road Driving Performance in Drivers Using Bioptic Telescopes:.

Bradley Dougherty OD, Ohio State University: "Bioptic Driving in Ohio".

Jennifer Elgin, OTR/L, CDRS, University of Alabama at Birmingham:  Licensed to Drive in Alabama's Bioptic Telescope Program: Driver and Telescope Characteristics, Driving Exposure, and Driving Difficulty.

Lylas Mogk MD, Henry Ford Health System:  "Protecting Public Safety and Playing Fair with Patients"  Protocol for Off-Road Evaluation of Senior Drivers and Prospective Bioptic Drivers".

Charles Huss MA, West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation Services:  "West Virginia Bioptic Driving Program: Overview and Program Update".

Richard Long PhD, Western Michigan University: "Access to Uncontrolled Crosswalks by Individuals Who Have Visual Impairments: Roundabouts, Channelized Turn Lanes, and Driver-Pedestrian Interactions".

Wall Emerson PhD, Western Michigan University:  "Quiet Cars, Blind Pedestrians, and Performance of Orientation and Mobility Tasks".

Leonard Evans PhD, Science Serving Society: " Topsy-Turvy U.S. Safety Policy Continues to Kill Thousands of Road Users".

Timo Tervo MD, PhD, Helsinki University Eye Hospital:  "Death at the Wheel in Finland and Its Uusimaa County 2009".

David Musch PhD, University of Michigan:  "Assessing Driving in Older Adults: A Survey of Vision Care Providers in the State of Michigan".

Matthew Rizzo MD, University of Iowa:  Measurement of Real-World Driving in Aging and Medical Disorders".

Pradeep Ramulu MD, Johns Hopkins University: "Driving Cessation, Driving Restriction and Driver Preference in Older Adults with Glaucoma and Macular Degeneration".

Felipe Medeiros MD, University of California, San Diego: "Driving Simulation in Patients with Glaucoma".

Anjali Bhorade MD, Washington University in St. Louis:  "On-Road Driving Performance in Patients with Moderate and Advanced Glaucoma".

Gerald McGwin PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham:  Motor Vehicle Collision Involvement Among Persons with Hemianopia and Quadrantanopia".

Ulrich Schiefer MD, University of Tuebingen, and Eleni Papageorgiou MD, General Hospital of Larissa:  "Gaze Patterns Predicting Successful Collision Avoidance in Patients with Homonymous Visual Field Defect:.

Jamie Dow MD, Société de l'assurance automobile du Québec:  "Visual Defects and Safe Driving".

Eli Peli OD, Schepens Eye Research Institute: "Driving with Central and Pericentral Field Loss".

Thomas Seder PhD, General Motors Vehicle Development Research Laboratory:  TBA.

Cynthia Owsley PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham:  "Association Between Older Adults' Visual Processing Skills and Their Attitudes About Instrument Cluster Format Design".

Thomas Schalk PhD, ATX Group:  "Assessment of Hands-Free Outbound Texting and Navigation Destination Entry".

Ronald Gibbons PhD, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute:  "Understanding Driver Eye Movements at Night: The Influence of Lighting and Context".

Michael Flannagan PhD, University of Michigan Transportation Institute: "Can Headlights Be As Good As They Need To Be?"

Michel Bédard PhD, Lakehead University:  "The Attention Network Test:  A New Approach to Determine Safety to Drive".

Judith Charlton PhD, Monash University:  "Older Driver Distraction: A Naturalistic Study of Behavior at Intersections".

Lesley Ross PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham:  "Does Ten Hours of Cognitive Training Maintain Driving in Older Adults?".

Karlene Ball PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham:  "Interventions to Reduce Crash Risk in Older Drivers".

Ergun Uc MD, University of Iowa:  "Vision, Cognition, and Driving in Parkinson's Disease".

Sherrilene Classen PhD, University of Florida:  "The Usefulness of Screening Tools for Predicting Driving Performance in People with Parkinson's Disease".

Celine Prevost, Institute of Research in Communications and Cybernetics of Nantes: "Visual Exploration While Driving As A Way to Understand Difficulties After Brain Injury".

There is also a Poster Session -- organization in progress.

For questions about The Eye and The Auto, please contact:

Carolyn Barth PhD
Congress Administrative Director
Detroit Institute of Ophthalmology
2011 The Fifth The Eye and The Auto World Research Congress
clbarth at dioeyes.org
Phone:  (313) 824-4710
Fax:  (313) 822-4233



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