Conference Proceeding

Effects of Cellular Telephone Use While Driving Based on Objective and Subjective Mental Workload Assessment

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Abstract

A series of studies were performed to investigate the effects of cellulartelephone use while driving on driver mental workload. In these surveillance studiesobjective and subjective methods were used to find the driver mental workloadbehaviour. In the first study, the results indicated that the hands-free system providedless effect on the driver’s mental workload than the hand-held system. In the secondstudy, experience in using a cellular telephone while driving had no positive effect onreaction time. The operation task and talking task had little effect on the subjectivemental workload of the experienced subjects, but had statistically significant effectson the subjective mental workload of the non-experienced subjects. In the third study,the results of experiment indicated that the telephone tasks increase the mentalworkload of the drivers as were shown in the second study. The results also indicatedthat the complex conversation task produced an increase in driver mental workload ascompared to the simple conversation task and the other tasks independent of agegroup.

How to Cite:

Tokunaga, R. & Shimojo, A. & Hagiwara, T. & Kagaya, S. & Uchida, K., (2001) “Effects of Cellular Telephone Use While Driving Based on Objective and Subjective Mental Workload Assessment”, Driving Assessment Conference 1(2001), 112-117. doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/drivingassessment.1019

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