Journal article
Predicting the effects of cellular-phone dialing on driver performance
Cognitive systems research, v 3(1)
2002
Abstract
Legislators, journalists, and researchers alike have recently directed a great deal of attention to the effects of cellular telephone (‘cell phone’) use on driver behavior and performance. This paper demonstrates how cognitive modeling can aid in understanding these effects by predicting the impact of cell-phone dialing in a naturalistic driving task. We developed models of four methods of cell-phone dialing and integrated these models with an existing driver model of steering and speed control. By running this integrated model, we generated a priori predictions for how each dialing method affects the accuracy of steering and speed control with respect to an accelerating and braking lead vehicle. The model predicted that the largest effects on driver performance arose for dialing methods with high visual demand rather than methods with long dialing times. We validated several of the model’s predictions with an empirical study in a fixed-based driving simulator.
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Details
- Title
- Predicting the effects of cellular-phone dialing on driver performance
- Creators
- Dario D Salvucci - Drexel UniversityKristen L Macuga - University of California, Santa Barbara
- Publication Details
- Cognitive systems research, v 3(1)
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Computer Science (Computing)
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-2442553631
- Other Identifier
- 991019173766304721