In-car countermeasures open window and music revisited on the real road: Popular but hardly effective against driver sleepiness

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 595-599

  Schwarz, Johanna F A ^a   Ingre, Michael ^a   Fors, Carina ^b   Anund, Anna ^b   Kecklund, Göran ^a   Taillard, Jacques ^c   Philip, Pierre ^c   Åkerstedt, Torbjörn ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b The Swedish Road and Transport Research Institute ^*  (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Countermeasure; Driving; Multilevel mixed effects regression; Real road; Sleepiness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAR; CAR DRIVER; CAR DRIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAYTIME SOMNOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NIGHT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMNOLENCE; TRAFFIC;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AUTOMOBILES; BLINKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSIC; SLEEP STAGES; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 84866752817     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2012.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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