Providing Views of the Driving Scene to Drivers’ Conversation Partners Mitigates Cell-Phone-Related Distraction

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2136-2146

  Gaspar, John G ^a   Street, Whitney N ^a   Windsor, Matthew B ^a   Carbonari, Ronald ^a   Kaczmarski, Henry ^a   Kramer, Arthur F ^a   Mathewson, Kyle E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

distracted driving; divided attention; dual task performance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CAR DRIVING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MOBILE PHONE; PSYCHOLOGY; SAFETY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; AWARENESS; CELL PHONES; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SAFETY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84918806405     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614549774     Document Type: Article

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