A Driving Simulator Study Examining Phone Dialing with an iPhone vs. a Button Style Flip-Phone

摘要

A simulation study compared 36 young adult drivers' task completion time, eye behavior, and drivingperformance while dialing a flip-phone with tactile pushbuttons and an iPhone which provides a touchscreen interface. Participants who often use a traditional manual button phone completed the dialing taskfaster when using the flip-phone compared to touch screen users using the iPhone. Females using the flipphone had the highest percentage of time spent with eyes on the road. Females were also less likely toexhibit glances greater than 2 seconds in duration with both phone types and particularly with the flipphone.Some advantages may exist in a traditional tactile manual interface in terms of the percentage oftime drivers kept their eyes on the road.