Assessing the visual and cognitive demands of in-vehicle information systems.

ABSTRACT:

Background

New automobiles provide a variety of features that allow motorists to perform a plethora of secondary tasks unrelated to the primary task of driving. Despite their ubiquity, surprisingly little is known about how these complex multimodal in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) interactions impact a driver's workload.

Results

The current research sought to address three interrelated questions concerning this knowledge gap: (1) Are some task types more impairing than others? (2) Are some modes of interaction more distracting than others? (3) Are IVIS interactions easier to perform in some vehicles than others? Depending on the availability of the IVIS features in each vehicle, our testing involved an assessment of up to four task types (audio entertainment, calling an

SUBMITTER: Strayer DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6588669 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature