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A Study on the Positioning of a Mounted Mobile Phone to Reduce Distraction While Driving Among Young Adults

2016; Springer Nature; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/978-3-319-41682-3_31

2194-5357

Angelique Mae Alconera, Lakan Garcia, Jeremy Christine Mercado, Alyssa Jean Portus,

Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders

This study examined three locations for mounting a mobile phone inside a vehicle to minimize distraction while driving. The locations considered were the three most preferred locations based on a survey among 76 young adult drivers. Nineteen right-handed drivers aged 19–25 participated in a series of visual, auditory, and tactile distraction tests while driving using a simulator. Total distraction time, response accuracy, and the effect to driving skill were recorded for each test. At ∝ = 0.10, the mean time that the drivers’ hands were off the steering wheel was found to be different among the locations (P-value = 0.096). Further analyses suggest that the samples taken from the top-left of the steering wheel do not differ (P-value = 0.6614) with the most favorable location, the top-right of the steering wheel. This implies that driving distraction is minimal when the mobile phone is mounted in either of these two locations.