Older Drivers and New In-Vehicle Technologies: Adaptation and Long-Term Effects

  • Authors:

  • Anabela Simões;Marta Pereira

  • Affiliations:

  • High Institute for Education and Sciences (ISEC), Lisbon, Portugal 1750-142;High Institute for Education and Sciences (ISEC), Lisbon, Portugal 1750-142

  • Venue:
  • HCD 09 Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Human Centered Design: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The introduction of new technologies into vehicles has been imposing new forms of interaction, being a challenge to drivers but also to HMI research. The multiplicity of on-board systems in the market has been changing the driving task, being the consequences of such interaction a concern especially to older drivers. Several studies have been conducted to report the natural functional declines of older drivers and the way they cope with additional sources of information and additional tasks in specific moments. However, the evolution of these equipments, their frequent presence in the automotive market and also the increased acceptability and familiarization of older drivers with such technologies, compel researchers to consider other aspects of these interactions: from adaptation to the long term effects of using any in-vehicle technologies.