Otto Lappi

Research

Key publications

Lappi, O., Pekkanen, J. & Itkonen, T. (2013). Pursuit Eye-Movements in Curve Driving Differentiate between Future Path and Tangent Point Models. PLoS ONE, 8(7), 1-16. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068326

Uses recently discovered optokinetic eye-movements as evidence for future path targeting (over the traditional traditional tangent point hypothesis).

Lappi, O., & Lehtonen, E. (2013). Eye-movements in real curve driving: pursuit-like optokinesis in vehicle frame of reference, stability in an allocentric-reference coordinate system. Journal of Eye Movement Research, 6(1), 1-13.

First paper to report in real curve driving optokinetic nystagmus eye-movements, recently observed in simulator studies

Lappi, O., Lehtonen, E., Pekkanen, J. & Itkonen, T. (2013). Beyond the tangent point: Gaze targets in naturalistic driving Journal of Vision, 13(13): 11, 1-18. doi: 10.1167/13.13.11

A critical re-evaluation of the ubiquity of "tangent point orientation" in curve driving, and the traditional AOI-based results cited in empirical support of it.

Lehtonen, E., Lappi, O., Kotkanen, H. A., & Summala, H. (2013). Look-ahead fixations in curve driving. Ergonomics, 56(1), 34-44. doi: 10.1080/00140139.2012.739205

First paper to describe the visual strategy in driving in terms of look-ahead fixations

Teaching