Conference Proceeding

The Effect of Voice Interactions on Drivers’ Guidance of Attention

Authors

• • Yi-Ching Lee chinglee@uiuc.edu Email Yi-Ching Lee. (compose email, opens in email app.)
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• • Jeffrey D Lee
  • University of Iowa, Iowa City
• • Linda Ng Boyle
  • University of Iowa, Iowa City

Abstract

The objective of the current study was to assess the effect of voice interactions with an in-vehicle system on drivers’ guidance of attention. Our approach was to examine the effect of voice interactions on endogenous control of attention using a modified Posner cue-target paradigm. Consistent with the bottleneck hypothesis, dual-task slowing was observed when drivers responded to an auditory task and to a pedestrian detection task concurrently. This interference contributed to disrupted attention allocation, especially when drivers could not rely on their endogenous control of attention.

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How to Cite: Lee, Y. , Lee, J. & Boyle, L. (2007) “The Effect of Voice Interactions on Drivers’ Guidance of Attention”, Driving Assessment Conference Archive. 4(2007). doi: https://doi.org/10.17077/drivingassessment.1215