What Drives Distraction? Distraction as a Breakdown of Multilevel Control

Details

• Personal Author:
  Lee JD ; Regan MA ; Young KL
• Description:
  Chapter 3 offered a definition of distraction and pointed toward some of the challenges in identifying distraction as a cause of motor vehicle crashes. As with most safety-related mishaps, distraction-related incidents and crashes are complex events with multiple causes. Definitions of distraction, related models of performance, and crash analyses can pursue an arbitrarily long causal sequence in explaining the situation. Chapter 3 also characterized distraction as a failure to maintain an appropriate distribution of attention relative to the demands of activities critical for safe driving. This chapter considers the processes that underlie distraction in an effort to provide a useful causal explanation of distraction-related crashes and to describe why drivers fail to maintain an appropriate distribution of attention. This explanation of how attention is diverted away from activities critical for safe driving describes distraction as a breakdown in a multilevel control process, with a different timescale characterizing each level. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Automobiles Behavior Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Prevention Automobile Safety Drivers Emerging Technology Humans Motor Vehicles Safety Practices Safety Research Visual Fields
• ISBN:
  9780849374265
• Publisher:
  CRC Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Book
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; Iowa ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 7
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  41-56
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20063350
• Citation:
  Driver distraction: theory, effects, and mitigation, 1st edition. Regan MA, Lee JD, Young KL, eds. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2008 Oct; :41-56
• Contact Point Address:
  John D. Lee, Department Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Human Factors Research, National Advanced Driving Simulator, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
• Email:
  jdlee@engineering.uiowa.edu
• Editor(s):
  Regan MA; Lee JD; Young KL
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Performing Organization:
  University of Iowa
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Driver distraction: theory, effects, and mitigation, 1st edition
• End Date:
  20290630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/226428/cdc_226428_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 397.59 KB ]