Driven to Distraction: Dual-Task Studies of Simulated Driving and Conversing on a Cellular Telephone

By David L. Strayer, W. Johnston. Psychology Science, 2001

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Did you see the unicycling clown? Inattentional blindness while walking and talking on a cell phone (2009, background): “…appear to be particularly problematic: Cell phone users perform more poorly than people listening to music, listening to books on tape, or conversing with a passenger (Crudell, Bains, Chapman, & Underwood, 2005; Drews, Pasupathi, & Strayer, 2008; Hunton & Rose, 2005; Strayer & Johnston, 2001).”
Can you connect with me now? How the presence of mobile communication technology influences face-to-face conversation quality (2013, background): “Specifically, this research indicates that use of mobile phones can reduce the quality of attention to real-world events such as operating motor vehicles (Strayer, Drews, & Johnston, 2003; Strayer & Johnston, 2001).”
Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging while reading (2010, background): “For example, Strayer and Johnston (2001) found that cell phone use impaired performance on a second task, especially when the task required mental effort.”
Don't Distract Me When I'm Media Multitasking: Toward a Theory for Raising Advertising Recall and Recognition (2016, neutral): “Performance has consequently been shown to suffer in a myriad of activities, including driving whilst using a cellphone (Strayer and Johnston 2001), doing homework or reading with background television noise (Pool et al. 2000; Armstrong and Chung 2000), listening to a lecture whilst using a laptop…”
Attentional Limitations in Doing Two Tasks at Once (2006, background): “Therefore, reports of substantial interference between these activities ( Strayer & Johnston, 2001 ) will likely generalize widely.”
Regulating Conversation During Driving: A Problem for Mobile Telephones? (2005, background): “stlund, & Nilsson, 2004; Strayer & Johston, 2001 ).”
The Effects of Text Messaging on Young Drivers (2009, result): “This finding supports a number of other studies that have found that drivers are more likely to miss traffic signs, or not process the information provided on the sign, when distracted (Strayer & Johnston, 2001).”
Paying attention behind the wheel: a framework for studying the role of attention in driving (2004, background): “Strayer and Johnston (2001) argue that conversing on cellular telephones interferes more than other secondary tasks such as holding the phone, listening, or repeating a spoken word, because it diverts drivers’ attention into an engaging cognitive context that is unrelated to driving.”
Hands-free mobile phone speech while driving degrades coordination and control (2004, background): “…that phone use while driving compromise one s attention to foveally presented visual information and manifests in the experimental paradigm known as ‘‘change blindness’’ (Rensink, Oregan, & Clark, 1997) or similarly, a form of inattentional blindness (Strayer & Johnson, 2001; Strayer et al., 2003).”
A taxonomy of external and internal attention. (2011, neutral): “…may be missed, whether it is a gorilla in a video (Simons & Chabris 1999), a traffic light while chatting on a cell phone during driving (Strayer & Johnston 2001), a boarding announcement at the airport while talking with a friend (Cherry 1953), or the name of an old acquaintance you…”
Driver Distraction in Commercial Vehicle Operations (2009, background): “…a cell phone, holding a cell phone, etc.), but may also relate to the cognitive processing while engaged in a conversation (Redelmeier & Tibshirani, 1997; Goodman et al.; Strayer & Johnston, 2001; Harbluk, Noy, & Eizenman, 2002; Strayer et al., 2003; Patten, Kircher, Östlund, & Nilsson, 2004).”
Peripheral detection as a workload measure in driving: Effects of traffic complexity and route guidance system use in a driving study (2005, background): “…withdrawal of attention, the second class of safety-relevant distraction effects, is a result of cognitive workload, which can be caused by the usage of mobile phones and can result in deteriorated object and event detection (Groeger, 2000; Haigney & Westerman, 2001; Strayer & Johnston , 2001).”
Effects of distraction and experience on situation awareness and simulated driving (2007, background): “Additionally, Strayer and Johnston (2001) reported that drivers engaged in cell phone conversations missed twice as many traffic signals and had slower reaction times.”
Examining the Impact of Cell Phone Conversations on Driving Using Meta-Analytic Techniques (2006, background): “This increase in usage has been coupled with an acceleration in the number of studies that have attempted to document the negative safety implications of their use while driving (e.g., Alm & Nilsson, 1994; McKnight & McKnight, 1993; Strayer & Johnston, 2001).”