Watchout: Facilitating safe driving behaviors with social support

Hyojin Chin, Hengameh Zabihi, Sangkeun Park, Mun Yong Yi, Uichin Lee

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Abstract

Bad driving behaviors are a major cause of the traffic accidents, many of them resulting in fatalities. Our study intends to encourage safe driving habits by increasing a driver's self-awareness about their own driving habits, as well as receiving supportive feedback on their driving behavior from a loved one as an intervention method. We built an Android prototype app to deliver feedback for bad driving maneuvers to both drivers themselves and to their corresponding supporters, and conducted a field study evaluation. The results from the survey showed that even though many of the drivers thought they drove safely before this experiment, they realized the app feedback on their driving behavior increased their knowledge of their own driving habits. Further, supporter feedback based on the app helped them drive safer. Based on the results, multiple design implications are drawn for improving driving habits through increasing self-awareness and providing support from loved ones.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCHI 2017 Extended Abstracts - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publicationExplore, Innovate, Inspire
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages2459-2465
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781450346566
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 6 May 2017
Event2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017 - Denver, United States
Duration: 6 May 201711 May 2017

Publication series

NameConference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
VolumePart F127655

Conference

Conference2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityDenver
Period6/05/1711/05/17

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).

Keywords

  • Driving assessment
  • Driving behavior change
  • Social face
  • Social reinforcement

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