The Effects of Cell Phone and Text Message Conversations on Simulated Street Crossing

Banducci, Sarah E.; Ward, Nathan; Gaspar, John; Schab, Kurt; Crowell, James A.; Kaczmarski, Henry; Kramer, Arthur F.

doi:10.1177/0018720815609501

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“…The type of phone use that has been of most concern has been texting, where the pedestrian is looking down, rather than at their surroundings (e.g. Saltos et al, 2015;Banducci et al, 2016). In our study, 5.6% of pedestrians were looking down at their phones, which was similar to the older study of 5.7% in Las Vegas but lower than for the college campuses (8%) and Seattle (7.3%).…”

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confidence: 68%

“…Pedestrians using phones have been shown to experience cognitive distraction, reduction in their awareness of their surroundings and situation, reduced perceptual visual field, and reduced attention (e.g. Hatfield & Murphy, 2007;Hyman et al, 2010;Stavrinos et al, 2011;Nasar & Troyer, 2013;Alejalil & Davoodi, 2016;Banducci et al, 2016). These behaviors puts pedestrians at higher risk of collision with a motor vehicle (Schwebel et al, 2012;Nasar & Troyer, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety – Volume 30, Issue 1, 2019

2019

JACRS

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Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety – Volume 30, Issue 1, 2019

2019

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“…This is consistent with previous literature, where simulator studies have shown the detrimental effects of dual-tasking on street crossing performance. These studies found that the need for decision making and planning was greater in texting while walking scenarios, thus requiring participants to physically divert their attention from the crossing scene [20]. Another simulator study, assessing dual-task performance in a virtual reality environment where participants crossed a simulated street by walking on a treadmill, found that older adults at risk of falls experienced more collisions with oncoming cars and had longer street crossing times [21].…”

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The Effect of Age on Gait Speed When Texting

Alapatt

Peel

Reid

et al. 2020

IJERPH

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Texting while walking exerts a high cognitive load, and may be a sensitive test of the integrity of the cognitive–motor interface. We aimed to investigate the association between chronological age and gait speed while texting. A convenience sample of 308 community-dwellers was recruited: n ≥ 50 in each age group (20–29, 30–39, 40–49, 50–59) and n = 100 aged ≥60 years. Gait speed was measured over 10 metres under two experimental conditions: 1) walking at usual pace; 2) walking at usual pace while texting the message “Good morning Harry” on their smartphone. Both median gait speed with and without texting decreased with increasing age (p < 0.001). The differences between single- and dual-task gait speed were substantial for each age group and increased after the age of 50 years (p < 0.001). Median gait speeds while texting in people aged 50–59 (1.07 m/s) and ≥60 years (1.00 m/s) were below the recommended minimum for safely crossing roads (1.20 m/s). Texting while walking currently exposes people aged 50 and over to considerable environmental hazards. The significant slowing of gait speed while texting from middle age may be a marker of neurodegeneration, a cohort effect, or an appropriate compensatory response to reduce the risk of injury.

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“…Not only is typing on a cellular device while walking relatively common, the associated dangers have been recently exposed in the New York Times, U.S. News, CNN, and USA Today (Griggs, 2014;Preidt, 2014;Reynolds, 2014;Watson, 2014). The hazards of texting while walking have also been revealed in empirical studies indicating that such dual tasking hinders the ability to safely cross a street (Banducci et al, 2016), navigate to a target (Lamberg & Muratori, 2012), and identify visual cues consistent with situational awareness (Lim et al, 2015). A weakness of the study is that we did not record any temporal measures related to dialing that would allow for the determination of whether dialing speed changed over the course of the trial and whether participants tended to chunk their responding in synchrony with their gait to facilitate attention shifting (Janssen & Brumby 2010;Janssen, Brumby, & Garnett, 2012).…”

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Cellular Telephone Dialing Influences Kinematic and Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Healthy Adults

Seymour

Higginson

DeGoede

et al. 2016

Journal of Motor Behavior

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Gait speed is typically reduced when individuals simultaneously perform other tasks. However, the impact of dual tasking on kinetic and kinematic gait parameters is unclear because these vary with gait speed. The objective of this study was to identify whether dual tasking impacts gait in healthy adults when speed is constant. Twenty-two healthy adults dialed a cell phone during treadmill walking at a self-selected speed while kinetic, kinematic, and spatial parameters were recorded. Results indicated that dual tasking did not impact phone dialing speed, but increased stride width, peak knee flexion during stance, and peak plantarflexion, and decreased knee and ankle range of motion. Dual tasking appears to influence kinematic gait variables in a manner consistent with promotion of stability.

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The Effects of Cell Phone and Text Message Conversations on Simulated Street Crossing

Abstract: Sending and receiving text messages negatively impact a range of real-world behaviors. These results may inform personal and policy decisions.

Cited by 59 publications

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Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety – Volume 30, Issue 1, 2019

Journal of the Australasian College of Road Safety – Volume 30, Issue 1, 2019

The Effect of Age on Gait Speed When Texting

Cellular Telephone Dialing Influences Kinematic and Spatiotemporal Gait Parameters in Healthy Adults

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