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In our large-scale study, participants performed driving tasks in a simulator (N = 380, 44% female, age: 20\u201373 years old) and in on-road urban environments (N = 241, 44% female, age: 19\u201374 years old). We analysed measures of eye gaze entropy in relation to driving experience and compared their dynamics between the simulator and on-road driving. The results demonstrate that, in both driving conditions, gaze transition entropy is higher, whereas stationary gaze entropy is lower, in more experienced drivers of both genders. This suggests that gaining driving experience may be accompanied by a decrease in overall gaze dispersion and an increased unpredictability of visual scanning behaviour. These results are in line with previously reported trends on experience-related dynamics of eye gaze entropy measures. We discuss our findings in the framework of the system-evolutionary theory, which explains the organisation of behaviour through the history of individual development, corresponding to the growing complexity of individual\u2013environment interactions. Experience-related dynamics of eye gaze complexity can be a useful factor in the development of practical applications, such as driver monitoring systems and other human\u2013machine interfaces.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e28010008","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,24]],"date-time":"2025-12-24T14:27:51Z","timestamp":1766586471000},"page":"8","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Eye Gaze Entropy Reflects Individual Experience in the Context of Driving"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"28","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3056-5670","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Karina","family":"Arutyunova","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Cognitive Systems Lab, Harman Research, Harman International, 30001 Cabot Dr, Novi, MI 48377, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0838-0250","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Evgenii","family":"Burashnikov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cognitive Systems Lab, Harman Research, Harman International, 30001 Cabot Dr, Novi, MI 48377, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nikita","family":"Timakin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cognitive Systems Lab, Harman Research, Harman International, 30001 Cabot Dr, Novi, MI 48377, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ivan","family":"Shishalov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cognitive Systems Lab, Harman Research, Harman International, 30001 Cabot Dr, Novi, MI 48377, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1529-5916","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Andrei","family":"Filimonov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cognitive Systems Lab, Harman Research, Harman International, 30001 Cabot Dr, Novi, MI 48377, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anastasiia","family":"Bakhchina","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Cognitive Systems Lab, Harman Research, Harman International, 30001 Cabot Dr, Novi, MI 48377, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,12,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"15","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tics.2016.11.003","article-title":"Gaze Control as Prediction","volume":"21","author":"Henderson","year":"2017","journal-title":"Trends Cogn. 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