Road Safety and Mobile Phone Behaviors

2015 ◽  
pp. 1356-1365
Author(s):  
Junaid Ahmad Bhatti
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Road Safety ◽  
Motor Vehicle ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Vehicle Collision ◽  
Safety Risks ◽  
Lane Position ◽  
The Impact

Mobile phone use while driving is one of the major road safety risks. In surveys from different settings, the rate of mobile phone use while driving ranged from 1 to 11%. Literature from observational and experimental studies show that driving capacities such as reacting to traffic hazards, maintaining a central lane position, maintaining a safe distance and speed are negatively affected when using a mobile phone while driving. Several epidemiological studies suggest that motor vehicle collision risks increase by two to nine times when using a mobile phone (handheld or hands-free) compared to not using the phone while driving. Considering these findings, almost three-quarters of the countries have adopted legislation banning the use of handheld mobile phone devices while driving. These interventions, however, are insufficient to deal with the use of hands-free mobile phones while driving and texting which are challenging to ascertain and prevent. Currently, “in-vehicle” and collision avoidance technologies are being evaluated to further reduce the impact of these road menaces in our society.

New Evidence of Impacts of Cell Phone Use on Driving Performance

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quan Chen ◽  
Zheng Yan
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Cell Phone Use ◽  
Car Accidents ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Future Research Directions ◽  
New Evidence

Mobile phone use when driving is widely considered to be a major cause of car accidents. This paper attempts to review the existing literature by focusing on three key issues: (a) Whether and how seriously does mobile phone use impair driving? (b) How and why does mobile phone use impair driving? (c) What should be done to best prevent from accident? The authors identified a total of 90 epidemiological studies, experimental studies, and observational studies that were published during 2007 to 2012. These most recent studies were systematically reviewed in three major categories, (a) the effect of using a mobile phone when driving on drivers’ performance in terms of information processing and vehicle control, (b) variables related to driving, such as characteristics of drivers and mobile phone types, and (c) context and content of conversation during driving. Both limitations of existing research and future research directions are discussed.

scholarly journals Mobile Phone Use and Mental Health. A Review of the Research That Takes a Psychological Perspective on Exposure

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Thomée
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Longitudinal Design ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Mental Health Outcomes ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Behavioral Perspective

The purpose of this study was to carry out a review of observational studies that consider links between mobile phone use and mental health from a psychological or behavioral perspective. Systematic literature searches in PubMed and PsycINFO for articles published until 2017 were done. Exclusion criteria included: papers that considered radiofrequency fields, attention, safety, relational consequences, sexual behavior, cyberbullying, and reviews, qualitative, and case or experimental studies. A total of 4738 papers were screened by title and abstract, 404 were retrieved in full text, and 290 were included. Only 5% had any longitudinal design. Self-reporting was the dominating method of measurement. One third of the studies included children or youth. A majority of adult populations consisted of university students and/or self-selected participants. The main research results included associations between frequent mobile phone use and mental health outcomes, such as depressive symptoms and sleep problems. Mobile phone use at bedtime was associated with, e.g., shorter sleep duration and lower sleep quality. “Problematic use” (dependency) was associated with several negative outcomes. In conclusion, associations between mobile phone use and adverse mental health outcomes are found in studies that take a psychological or behavioral perspective on the exposure. However, more studies of high quality are needed in order to draw valid conclusions about the mechanisms and causal directions of associations.

Quantifying the Impact of Selection Bias Caused by Nonparticipation in a Case–Control Study of Mobile Phone Use

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41.e1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martine Vrijheid ◽  
Lesley Richardson ◽  
Bruce K. Armstrong ◽  
Anssi Auvinen ◽  
Gabriele Berg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Selection Bias ◽  
Case Control Study ◽  
Case Control ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Control Study

Reducing overestimation in reported mobile phone use associated with epidemiological studies

2008 ◽  
Vol 29 (7) ◽  
pp. 559-563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kari Tokola ◽  
Päivi Kurttio ◽  
Tiina Salminen ◽  
Anssi Auvinen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Mobile Phone Use

Influences of Gesture-Based Mobile Phone Use While Driving

2021 ◽  
pp. 036119812110263
Author(s):  
Jianwei Niu ◽  
Yulin Zhou ◽  
Dan Wang ◽  
Xingguo Liu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Lateral Position ◽  
Driving Safety ◽  
Control Technique ◽  
Steering Wheel ◽  
Secondary Tasks ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Driving Speed ◽  
Gesture Control ◽  
The Impact

The use of mobile phones while driving has been a hot topic in the field of driving safety for decades. Although there are few studies on the influence of gesture control on in-vehicle secondary tasks, this study aims to investigate the impact of gesture-based mobile phone use without touching while driving from the perspective of multiple-resource workload owing to visual, auditory, cognitive, and psychomotor resource occupation. A novel gesture control technique was adopted for secondary task interactions, to recognize the gestures of drivers. An experiment was conducted to study the influences of two interaction modes, traditional touch-based mobile phone interaction and gesture-based mobile phone interaction, on driving behavior in three different cognitive level task groups. The results indicate that gesture-based mobile phone interaction can improve driving performance with regard to lateral position-keeping ability and steering wheel control; nevertheless, it has no significant impact on longitudinal metrics such as driving speed, driving speed variation, and throttle control variation. Gesture-based mobile phone interactions have a larger effect on secondary tasks with medium cognitive load but not on actual operation tasks. It was also verified that the performance of gesture-based mobile phone interaction was better in secondary mobile phone tasks such as switching (e.g., switching songs) and adjusting (e.g., adjusting volume) than the traditional interaction mode. This study provides the theoretical and experimental support for human–computer interaction using gesture-based mobile phone interactive control in future automobiles.

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