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NCT Number: NCT07352904

Exploration Strategies in Night Vision Sensors

The main objective of this clinical trial is to identify a variation in visual strategy characterized by both head movements and eye movements of healthy volunteers during a target detection task when images simulating night vision goggles (NVG) are presented, compared to a situation in which the images simulate a natural environment.

To highlight changes in environmental scanning with simulated images from NVG, objective measurements will be collected:

* eye movements characterized by saccades (speed, latency, and number) for each stimulus * head movements (horizontal angle of the participant's head) for each stimulus and throughout the exposure

Participants sit facing a screen (9.90 m x 2.10 m) onto which a virtual scene is projected. The objective is to correctly identify, as quickly as possible, a target stimulus (represented by a tank) that may appear in the scene. They must use the directional arrows on a game controller to indicate whether the tank is moving to the left or to the right.

There are four visits involving four viewing conditions in which the task remains the same:

* With restricted field of view and a normal scene. * Without restricted field of view and a scene simulating the vision obtained by NVGs. * With restricted field of view and a scene simulating the vision obtained by NVGs. * Without restricted field of view and a normal scene. Regarding the content of the scene, half of the tests in each visit involve a so-called poor scene when fog is simulated, or an enriched scene when there is no fog. Each visit lasts approximately one hour and thirty minutes.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Affiliated with social security;
  • Normal vision or vision corrected with lenses (far vision ≤ 0.03 log unit (≥ 9/10) OD/OG/binocular);
  • No current or past ocular or binocular pathology: strabismus or amblyopia;
  • Signed non-objection form.

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnant or breastfeeding women;
  • Incapacitated adults;
  • Individuals who do not understand French (written or spoken).

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. Eye movements characterized by saccades (speed, latency, and number) for each stimulus

    Time frame: Day 1 (Visit 1) and during follow-up visits at Day 2 (Visit 2), Day 3 (Visit 3), and Day 4 (Visit 4)

    Measurements from eyetracker

  2. Head movements (horizontal angle of the participant's head) for each stimulus and throughout the exposure

    Time frame: Day 1 (Visit 1) and during follow-up visits at Day 2 (Visit 2), Day 3 (Visit 3), and Day 4 (Visit 4)

    Measurements extract from motion capture

Secondary outcomes

  1. The average stimulus detection times.

    Time frame: Day 1 (Visit 1) and during follow-up visits at Day 2 (Visit 2), Day 3 (Visit 3), and Day 4 (Visit 4)

    Measurements from an eyetracker

  2. Number of correct responses to the perceptual task

    Time frame: Day 1 (Visit 1) and during follow-up visits at Day 2 (Visit 2), Day 3 (Visit 3), and Day 4 (Visit 4)

    Extract with software

  3. Visual fatigue will be measured using a questionnaire

    Time frame: Day 1 (Visit 1) and during follow-up visits at Day 2 (Visit 2), Day 3 (Visit 3), and Day 4 (Visit 4)

    To highlight subjective visual fatigue generated by changes in visual search strategies using simulated images from night vision sensors.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées

Other

Registry information

Acronym: STRAT-JVN

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Jan 20, 2026
Registry last updated
Jan 20, 2026

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