25 – Driver Distraction /Bringing Sports into the Lab

How much does talking or texting on a smart phone impair driving performance?  How can we get drivers’ attention back on the road?  How can we effectively bring the sports field into the lab by creating representative task designs? Are coaches impairing skill acquisition by oversimplifying sports skills? (Time 20:47) Links to articles discussed: http://about.att.com/story/smartphone_use_while_driving_grows_beyond_texting.html Interference between concurrent tasks of driving and telephoning A meta-analysis of the effects of cell phones on driver performance A meta-analysis of the effects of texting on driving http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/cellphone_laws.html Examination of gaze behaviors under in situ and video simulation task constraints reveals differences in information pickup for perception and action Issues and challenges in developing representative tasks in sport  Monocular Optical Constraints on Collision Control   More information: http://www.perceptionactionpodcast.libsyn.com/ My Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles) My ASU Web page Podcast Facebook page (videos, pics, etc)   Credits: The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action The Mind Orchestra – Really Like Your Phone Robin Grey – Looking for Distraction- Poets of ELAN – I Won’t Call It Reigning Sound – Call Me Number 1 The Monitors - No Callback Twin Atlas – Calling For You Lo Fi is Sci Fi – Behold! The New Design Christian Bland & The Revelators – Emotionless Man via freemusicarchive.org and jamendo.com