Gaming to Safety: Exploring Feedback Gamification for Mitigating Driver Distraction. (September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Xie, Jeanne Y.; Chen, Huei-Yen Winnie; Donmez, Birsen
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society ... Annual Meeting. Volume 60:Part 1(2016)
• Page Start: 1884
• Page End: 1888
• Publication Date: 2016-09
• Subjects: Human engineering -- Congresses; 620.8205
• DOI: 10.1177/1541931213601429
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1541-9312

Abstract

The risk of crash or near-crash significantly increases when drivers make long off-road glances to engage in distracting tasks. Providing drivers with feedback that integrates elements of game design could increase driver motivation for adopting safer behaviors. In an ongoing between-subjects simulator study with young drivers ( n =29 reported in this paper), we compare four conditions for off-road glance behaviors: no feedback, real-time feedback system, post-drive feedback system (real-time feedback + post-drive feedback), and gamification feedback system (real-time feedback + post-drive feedback + game design elements). Shorter average glance duration and less frequent risky (≥2 s) glances to an in-vehicle display were observed for the post-drive system, compared to no feedback and real-time feedback, and for the gamification system, compared to no feedback. Although no added benefit of gamification over the post-drive feedback system was observed for these eye glance metrics, longer-term exposure and assessment could show improvements to be more stable with the inclusion of game design elements.