Drivers' adaptation to mobile phone use: Interaction strategies, consequences on driving behaviour and potential impact on road safety

Huth, Véronique; Brusque, Corinne

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“…Drivers’ considerations of environmental risk, however, do not seem enough to reduce the propensity of mobile phone use while driving. This finding coincides with earlier research that has suggested that there is no guarantee that drivers’ judgment of a driving situation is adequate to minimize crash risk (Huth & Brusque, ; Kircher & Ahlstrom, ). Knowing that drivers are deterred by the presence of police enforcement supports the implementation of high‐visibility enforcement programs to combat distracted driving (Bates, Soole, & Watson, ).…”

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Should I Text or Call Here? A Situation‐Based Analysis of Drivers’ Perceived Likelihood of Engaging in Mobile Phone Multitasking

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This study investigated how situational characteristics typically encountered in the transport system influence drivers' perceived likelihood of engaging in mobile phone multitasking. The impacts of mobile phone tasks, perceived environmental complexity/risk, and drivers' individual differences were evaluated as relevant individual predictors within the behavioral adaptation framework. An innovative questionnaire, which includes randomized textual and visual scenarios, was administered to collect data from a sample of 447 drivers in South East Queensland-Australia (66% females; n = 296). The likelihood of engaging in a mobile phone task across various scenarios was modeled by a random parameters ordered probit model. Results indicated that drivers who are female, are frequent users of phones for texting/answering calls, have less favorable attitudes towards safety, and are highly disinhibited were more likely to report stronger intentions of engaging in mobile phone multitasking. However, more years with a valid driving license, self-efficacy toward self-regulation in demanding traffic conditions and police enforcement, texting tasks, and demanding traffic conditions were negatively related to self-reported likelihood of mobile phone multitasking. The unobserved heterogeneity warned of riskier groups among female drivers and participants who need a lot of convincing to believe that multitasking while driving is dangerous. This research concludes that behavioral adaptation theory is a robust framework explaining self-regulation of distracted drivers.

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Should I Text or Call Here? A Situation‐Based Analysis of Drivers’ Perceived Likelihood of Engaging in Mobile Phone Multitasking

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“…This distraction has been found to narrow the perceptual field of view (Recarte and Nuñes, 2000), which is especially relevant for the driving performance in complex environments. The phone use behaviour observed in the present study concurs with previous findings on drivers' underestimation of cognitive distraction by a conversation and their judgement of visual-manual distractions as hazardous (McEvoy et al, 2005;Huth and Brusque, 2013). The results confirm that drivers particularly regulate their exposure to phone use when it includes visual-manual distraction, as concluded from a literature review on drivers' adaptation to mobile phone use while driving (Huth and Brusque, 2013).…”

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“…It can either be achieved by exposure limitation or by seeking for compatibility of the secondary task and driving, i.e. by choosing traffic situations in which the demands of the driving tasks leave enough attentional resources for the phone use (Huth and Brusque, 2013). In a simulator study, Schömig et al (2011) observed that drivers took the deliberate decision to engage in the secondary task based on an anticipation of the development of situational demands and the judgement of their compatibility with the execution of a concurrent task.…”

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Drivers’ phone use at red traffic lights: A roadside observation study comparing calls and visual–manual interactions

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Brusque

2015

Accident Analysis & Prevention

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Phone use while driving has become one of the priority issues in road safety, given that it may lead to decreased situation awareness and deteriorated driving performance. It has been suggested that drivers can regulate their exposure to secondary tasks and seek for compatibility of phone use and driving. Phone use strategies include the choice of driving situations with low demands and interruptions of the interaction when the context changes. Traffic light situations at urban intersections imply both a temptation to use the phone while waiting at the red traffic light and a potential threat due to the incompatibility of phone use and driving when the traffic light turns green. These two situations were targeted in a roadside observation study, with the aim to investigate the existence of a phone use strategy at the red traffic light and to test its effectiveness. N=124 phone users and a corresponding control group of non-users were observed. Strategic phone use behaviour was detected for visual-manual interactions, which are more likely to be initiated at the red traffic light and tend to be stopped before the vehicle moves off, while calls are less likely to be limited to the red traffic light situation. As an indicator of impaired situation awareness, delayed start was associated to phone use and in particular to visual-manual interactions, whether phone use was interrupted before moving off or not. Traffic light situations do not seem to allow effective application of phone use strategies, although drivers attempt to do so for the most demanding phone use mode. The underlying factors of phone use need to be studied so as to reduce the temptation of phone use and facilitate exposure regulation strategies.

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“…Such strategies could be to only answer the text message if the traffic light is red, but to go on cycling if the traffic light is green, or to only read text messages when there is no other traffic around and then decide whether to stop and answer or not. Such behaviours and strategies are comparable to what is typically found amongst car drivers (Funkhouser and Sayer 2012;Huth and Brusque 2013;Metz et al 2011;Platten et al 2014;Tivesten and Dozza 2015). Due to the design used in this study, in addition to the fact that it is not clear whether all untreated messages were ignored, or simply not noticed, it cannot be established whether the interaction level used for each message was indeed the highest acceptable for each cyclist.…”

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Bicyclists’ adaptation strategies when interacting with text messages in urban environments

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Cyclists' use of mobile phones in traffic has typically been studied in controlled experiments. How cyclists adapt their behaviour when they are not limited to a certain set of behaviours has not been investigated to any large extent. The aims of this study are to explore how cyclists adapt when texting and listening to music in a complex urban environment, and if they compensate sufficiently to maintain safe traffic behaviour. Forty-one cyclists participated in a semi-controlled study, using their own bike and smartphone in real traffic. They were equipped with eye tracking glasses and travelled two laps completing a total of 6 km divided into six segments. For one of the laps, the cyclists were requested to listen to music. On three occasions, they received a text message to their phone, which they were supposed to handle as they normally would when cycling. Static minimum required attention measures were used to examine the influence on attention. The results show that listening to music while cycling did not affect workload, speed, SMS interaction or attention. Seven different adaptation behaviours were identified when the cyclists dealt with received text messages. One-fourth of the text messages were replied to while cycling. In general, the cyclists manage to integrate SMS interactions with their cycling behaviour. Nevertheless, there were two occasions when basic attention criteria were violated while texting, which motivate further studies.

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Drivers' adaptation to mobile phone use: Interaction strategies, consequences on driving behaviour and potential impact on road safety

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Should I Text or Call Here? A Situation‐Based Analysis of Drivers’ Perceived Likelihood of Engaging in Mobile Phone Multitasking

Should I Text or Call Here? A Situation‐Based Analysis of Drivers’ Perceived Likelihood of Engaging in Mobile Phone Multitasking

Drivers’ phone use at red traffic lights: A roadside observation study comparing calls and visual–manual interactions

Bicyclists’ adaptation strategies when interacting with text messages in urban environments

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