Texting While Driving: Creating The Perfect Storm of Distraction
MAR 09, 2012
Human factors psychologists show how texting while driving has dangerous effects on driver performance.
Texting While Driving Creates The Perfect Storm of Distraction
Get Inside the Science:
- Text Messaging versus Talking on a Cell Phone: A Comparison of their Effects on Driving Performance (abstract )
- Wichita State Visual Psychophysics Lab
- Dr. Alex Chaparro, Wichita State University
Inside Science Buzzwords:
- Human Factors: A branch of science investigating how humans interact with parts of a system such as a car dashboard or cellphone touchscreen, and which applies its knowledge to improve their design in order to maximize both human well-being and overall system performance.
- Cognition: The mental processes of attention, remembering, creating and comprehending language, solving problems and decision making.
