Journal article
Missing links? The effects of distraction on driver situation awareness
Safety Science, Vol.56, pp.36-43
2013
Abstract
Achieving situation awareness is critical to safe and efficient driving. One factor that can limit drivers' situation awareness and thereby affect driving performance is distraction. This study aimed to investigate, under real-world driving conditions, whether and how visual-manual distraction disrupts drivers' situation awareness. Twenty-three participants drove an instrumented vehicle around an urban test route while distracted (i.e., performing a visual detection task) and while not distracted. A network analysis procedure, based on verbal protocols provided by drivers en-route, was used to describe and analyse participants' situation awareness. The findings indicate that engaging in a visually distracting task did not alter the structure of drivers' SA, but did change the content of their awareness. When distracted, drivers tended to place less emphasis on visual scanning element in favour of focussing on elements related to vehicle control tasks. These results have implications for the design and regulation of technologies being introduced into vehicles.
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- Title
- Missing links? The effects of distraction on driver situation awareness
- Authors
- K L Young (Author) - Monash UniversityPaul M Salmon (Author) - Monash UniversityM Cornelissen (Author) - Monash University
- Publication details
- Safety Science, Vol.56, pp.36-43
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Date published
- 2013
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ssci.2012.11.004
- ISSN
- 0925-7535
- Organisation Unit
- Centre for Human Factors and Systems Science; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99450488702621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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