25 – Driver Distraction /Bringing Sports into the Lab

How much does talking or texting on a smart phone impair driving performance?  How can we get drivers’ attention back on the road? 

How can we effectively bring the sports field into the lab by creating representative task designs? Are coaches impairing skill acquisition by oversimplifying sports skills? (Time 20:47)

Links to articles discussed:

http://about.att.com/story/smartphone_use_while_driving_grows_beyond_texting.html

Interference between concurrent tasks of driving and telephoning

A meta-analysis of the effects of cell phones on driver performance

A meta-analysis of the effects of texting on driving

http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/cellphone_laws.html

Examination of gaze behaviors under in situ and video simulation task constraints reveals differences in information pickup for perception and action

Issues and challenges in developing representative tasks in sport 

Monocular Optical Constraints on Collision Control

 

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