Equipment Design Features (Impacts on Safety)

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Effective/Ineffective Designs & Countermeasures

• What technologies can be employed to develop less distracting devices (e.g., voice recognition, hands free operation)?
• To what extent does voice interaction (speech recognition, artificial speech) provide benefits over visual presentation? Under what conditions is voice communication distracting?
• Is there less driver distraction with the use of Head Up Displays (HUDs) than with traditional displays? Can everyone use HUDs effectively?
• How should information be structured, formatted, and searched? How much information is too much for drivers to handle?
• What designs and features (design soluations) have worked well in this or similar applications? What problems have been observed?
• What effective countermeasures can be used to combat distraction?

• What are the important unanswered questions regarding the design of in-vehicle technologies? Is research best directed at defining good design or developing tools to evaluate individual designs?

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