Title

The Impact Of Emotions And Predominant Emotion Regulation Technique On Driving Performance

Keywords

Divided-Attention; Driver-Distraction; Transportation

Abstract

Distracted driving has been shown to be a safety issue in numerous studies. To combat this problem, in-vehicle technology, legislation, media interventions, and other methods have been proposed and attempted. However research indicates that the drivers themselves may circumvent, ignore, or not be able to react in time for these interventions to be effective. Therefore research into training programs for drivers may improve reaction time under distraction. Research indicates that action game players have faster reaction times and more attentional resources than non-players on paper-based tests. However, transferability to driving has not been studied yet. This paper outlines a study to determine if action game players perform better at a driving task based on frequency of game-play. Participants will be placed into two groups of play (high vs. low) and tested against two levels of distraction (none vs. phone conversation). It is expected that participants who play higher frequency of action games will perform better under distraction than lower frequency players. Driver performance, conversation recall, frequency and durations of eye fixations will be analyzed based on previous research which has validated those variables as a measure of distraction and higher workload. © 2012 - IOS Press and the authors. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

4-23-2012

Publication Title

Work

Volume

41

Issue

SUPPL.1

Number of Pages

3608-3611

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.3233/WOR-2012-0666-3608

Socpus ID

84859841503 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84859841503

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