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  • Successful steering relies on visual information, but the specific role of gaze patterns remains unclear.
  • Understanding how gaze directs movement is key to developing advanced navigation systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if gaze direction alone is sufficient for steering control.
  • To model the relationship between gaze patterns and trajectory control in steering tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Combined experimental and computational approaches.
  • Tested steering models (pure-pursuit and proportional controllers) using human gaze data and environmental optical features as waypoints.
  • Evaluated model performance in slalom and S-bend scenarios.

Main Results:

  • Both pure-pursuit and proportional steering models successfully navigated waypoints using human gaze data.
  • Models generalized across different steering scenarios (slalom and S-bends) with consistent parameters.
  • While average trajectories matched human performance, individual steering variations were not fully captured.

Conclusions:

  • Gaze direction provides adequate information for guiding steering in many situations.
  • "Looking where we are going" is a fundamental aspect of effective steering.
  • More complex models or additional sensory inputs are needed to account for individual differences in human steering responses.