Texting While Driving: Creating The Perfect Storm of Distraction
Human factors psychologists show how texting while driving has dangerous effects on driver performance.
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.
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