How drivers acquire the visual information they need to be safe on the road and what that means for road safety and autonomous vehicles (traffic safety; driver behaviour)

Benjamin Wolfe

Assistant Professor,

Co-Director, Applied Perception and Psychophysics Laboratory

• Campus
  • U of T Mississauga
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Arts & Science
• Department
  • Psychology

Areas of Expertise

• How drivers acquire the visual information they need to be safe on the road and what that means for road safety and autonomous vehicles (traffic safety; driver behaviour)
• How we find what we are looking for and how we choose to perceive some things and not others (visual attention)
• How we perceive the visual world (visual perception)
• How we read on screens and how we can improve reading for everyone (digital readability)
• Why we miss things we thought we saw?

Office: 905-828-5367
Website
Email: benjamin.wolfe@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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