TY - JOUR
T1 - Texting while driving using Google Glass™
T2 - Promising but not distraction-free
AU - He, Jibo
AU - Choi, William
AU - McCarley, Jason S.
AU - Chaparro, Barbara S.
AU - Wang, Chun
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
©2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - Texting while driving is risky but common. This study evaluated how texting using a Head-Mounted Display, Google Glass, impacts driving performance. Experienced drivers performed a classic car-following task while using three different interfaces to text: fully manual interaction with a head-down smartphone, vocal interaction with a smartphone, and vocal interaction with Google Glass. Fully manual interaction produced worse driving performance than either of the other interaction methods, leading to more lane excursions and variable vehicle control, and higher workload. Compared to texting vocally with a smartphone, texting using Google Glass produced fewer lane excursions, more braking responses, and lower workload. All forms of texting impaired driving performance compared to undistracted driving. These results imply that the use of Google Glass for texting impairs driving, but its Head-Mounted Display configuration and speech recognition technology may be safer than texting using a smartphone.
AB - Texting while driving is risky but common. This study evaluated how texting using a Head-Mounted Display, Google Glass, impacts driving performance. Experienced drivers performed a classic car-following task while using three different interfaces to text: fully manual interaction with a head-down smartphone, vocal interaction with a smartphone, and vocal interaction with Google Glass. Fully manual interaction produced worse driving performance than either of the other interaction methods, leading to more lane excursions and variable vehicle control, and higher workload. Compared to texting vocally with a smartphone, texting using Google Glass produced fewer lane excursions, more braking responses, and lower workload. All forms of texting impaired driving performance compared to undistracted driving. These results imply that the use of Google Glass for texting impairs driving, but its Head-Mounted Display configuration and speech recognition technology may be safer than texting using a smartphone.
KW - Car following
KW - Driver distraction
KW - Google Glass
KW - Head-Mounted Display
KW - Speech recognition
KW - Texting while driving
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U2 - 10.1016/j.aap.2015.03.033
DO - 10.1016/j.aap.2015.03.033
M3 - Article
C2 - 26024837
AN - SCOPUS:84930662746
SN - 0001-4575
VL - 81
SP - 218
EP - 229
JO - Accident Analysis and Prevention
JF - Accident Analysis and Prevention
ER -