Navigating a car in an unfamiliar country using an internet map: Effects of street language formats, map orientation consistency, and gender on driver performance, workload and multitasking strategy

Behaviour and Information Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 425-437

  Wu, Changxu ^a   Zhao, Guozhen ^a   Lin, Bin ^b   Lee, Jonghoon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

driver workload; internet map; map consistency; multitasking; navigation; street signs; unfamiliarity

Indexed keywords

DRIVER WORKLOAD; DRIVING ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GRAPHICAL INFORMATION; ORIENTATION CONSISTENCY; STREET SIGNS; TRANSPORTATION SAFETY; UNFAMILIARITY;

AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; INTERNET; MULTITASKING; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

TRAFFIC SIGNS;

EID: 84877666219     PISSN: 0144929X     EISSN: 13623001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0144929X.2011.566941     Document Type: Article

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