Studies from University of Minnesota Describe New Findings in Risk Management [Texting while driving using Google Glass ™: Promising but not…

Studies from University of Minnesota Describe New Findings in Risk Management [Texting while driving using Google Glass ™: Promising but not distraction-free]

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- New research on Risk Management is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "Texting while driving is risky but common. This study evaluated how texting using a Head-Mounted Display, Google Glass, impacts driving performance."

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from the University of Minnesota, "Experienced drivers performed a classic car-following task while using three different interfaces to text: fully manual interaction with a head-down smartphone, vocal interaction with a smartphone, and vocal interaction with Google Glass. Fully manual interaction produced worse driving performance than either of the other interaction methods, leading to more lane excursions and variable vehicle control, and higher workload. Compared to texting vocally with a smartphone, texting using Google Glass produced fewer lane excursions, more braking responses, and lower workload. All forms of texting impaired driving performance compared to undistracted driving."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "These results imply that the use of Google Glass for texting impairs driving, but its Head-Mounted Display configuration and speech recognition technology may be safer than texting using a smartphone."

For more information on this research see: Texting while driving using Google Glass ™: Promising but not distraction-free. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 2015;81():218-229. Accident Analysis and Prevention can be contacted at: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Accident Analysis and Prevention - www.journals.elsevier.com/accident-analysis-and-prevention/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting J.B. He, University of Minnesota, Dept. of Psychol, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States. Additional authors for this research include W. Choi, J.S. McCarley, B.S. Chaprro and C. Wang.

Keywords for this news article include: Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States, Risk Management, North and Central America

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