Naturalistic use of cell phones in driving and context-based user assistance

  • Authors:
  • Harry Zhang;Christopher Schreiner;Keshu Zhang;Kari Torkkola

  • Affiliations:
  • Motorola Intelligent Systems Lab, Tempe, Arizona;Motorola Intelligent Systems Lab, Tempe, Arizona;Motorola Intelligent Systems Lab, Tempe, Arizona;Motorola Intelligent Systems Lab, Tempe, Arizona

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

A field study has been conducted to investigate the naturalistic use of cell phone applications in driving, home, work, and school and during daytime and nighttime. GPS coordinates are used to determine whether cell phone users are driving. The frequency and duration of use of various cell phone applications such as incoming or outgoing voice calls, music player, calendar, SMS, camera, and the Internet are analyzed separately for driving and non-driving. The present results provide fundamental data for adequately assessing the distraction potential of mobile devices and guiding the design of context-based assistance systems.