Loudness interacts with semantics in auditory warnings to impact rear-end collisions

Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-42

  Baldwin, Carryl L ^a   May, Jennifer F ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Auditory alarms; Collision warning systems; Driver response; Semantic

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; CRASHWORTHINESS; HAZARDS; SEMANTICS;

AUDITORY ALARM; COLLISION WARNING SYSTEM; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DRIVER RESPONSE; PRESENTATION LEVEL; REAR-END COLLISIONS; SIMULATED VEHICLES; VEHICLE COLLISIONS;

ALARM SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650307557     PISSN: 13698478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trf.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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