The impact of a naturalistic hands-free cellular phone task on heart rate and simulated driving performance in two age groups

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 13-25

  Reimer, Bryan ^a   Mehler, Bruce ^a   Coughlin, Joseph F ^a   Roy, Nick ^a   Dusek, Jeffery A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age; Cell phones; Cognitive distraction; Driving performance; Physiology; Workload

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; CELLULAR TELEPHONES; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; FUNCTIONS; MOBILE PHONES; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; TELEPHONE SETS;

AGE GROUP DIFFERENCES; CELL PHONE; COGNITIVE DISTRACTIONS; DRIVING PERFORMANCE; HEART RATE RESPONSE; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; REGULATORY BEHAVIOR; WORKLOAD;

HEART;

EID: 78650306224     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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