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Title:

Young Driver Distraction by Text Messaging: A Comparison of the Effects of Reading and Texting in Chinese Versus English

Accession Number:

01519718

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Reading and writing text messages while driving causes remarkable impairments in driving performance, and is prohibited in many jurisdictions. Hong Kong is a bilingual society and both written Chinese and English are popular languages in daily life. As the input methods of Chinese and English vary considerably, the aim of this study was to examine the effect of reading and writing Chinese and English text messages on driving performance using a driving simulator approach. In particular, the authors analyzed the differences in reaction times for (1) reading versus writing text messages; (2) reading and texting Chinese versus English messages under different driving scenarios; and (3) all possible combinations of scenarios and conditions. Thirty participants were involved in the proposed driving simulator experiments. The results indicated that the reaction times under all distraction conditions, both reading and writing text messages in Chinese and English, were significantly higher than those under the no distraction condition. The reaction times when writing Chinese text messages, which involve a more complicated input method, were significantly higher than those when writing text messages in English.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AND10 Vehicle User Characteristics. Alternate title: Young Driver Distraction by Text Messaging: Comparison of Effects of Reading and Texting in Chinese Versus English

Monograph Accession #:

01503729

Report/Paper Numbers:

14-1581

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Yan, Wei
Wong, S C
Zhang, Liqiao
Li, Y C
Sze, N N
Yan, Xuedong

Pagination:

20p

Publication Date:

2014

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC
Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

Chinese language; English language

Geographic Terms:

Hong Kong (China)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2014 Paper #14-1581

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Jan 27 2014 2:35PM