Objective: This study explores the influence of mobile phone secondary tasks on driving from the perspective of visual, auditory, cognitive, and psychomotor (VACP) multiple resource theory, and it is anticipated to benefit the human-centered design of mobile phone use while driving.
Methods: The present study investigated 6 typical phone use scenarios while driving and analyzed the effects of phone use distractions on driving performance. Thirty-six participants were recruited to participate in this experiment. We abandoned traditional secondary tasks such as conversations or dialing, in which cognitive resources can become interference. Instead, we adopted an arrow secondary task and an n-back delayed digit recall task.
Results: The results show that all mobile phone use scenarios have a significant influence on driving performance, especially on lateral vehicle control. The visual plus psychomotor resource occupation scenario demonstrated the greatest deterioration of driving performance, and there was a significant deterioration of driving speed and steering wheel angle once the psychomotor resource was occupied.
Conclusions: Phone use distraction leads to visual, cognitive, and/or motor resource functional limitations and thus causes lane violations and traffic accidents. 相似文献
IntroductionAnalyzing key factors of motorcycle accidents is an effective method to reduce fatalities and improve road safety. Association Rule Mining (ARM) is an efficient data mining method to identify critical factors associated with injury severity. However, the existing studies have some limitations in applying ARM: (a) Most studies determined parameter thresholds of ARM subjectively, which lacks objectiveness and efficiency; (b) Most studies only listed rules with high parameter thresholds, while lacking in-depth analysis of multiple-item rules. Besides, the existing studies seldom conducted a spatial analysis of motorcycle accidents, which can provide intuitive suggestions for policymakers. Method: To address these limitations, this study proposes an ARM-based framework to identify critical factors related to motorcycle injury severity. A method for parameter optimization is proposed to objectively determine parameter thresholds in ARM. A method of factor extraction is proposed to identify individual key factors from 2-item rules and boosting factors from multiple-item rules. Geographic information system (GIS) is adopted to explore the spatial relationship between key factors and motorcycle injury severity. Results and conclusions: The framework is applied to a case study of motorcycle accidents in Victoria, Australia. Fifteen attributes are selected after data preprocessing. 0.03 and 0.7 are determined as the best thresholds of support and confidence in ARM. Five individual key factors and four boosting factors are identified to be related to fatal injury. Spatial analysis is conducted by GIS to present hot spots of motorcycle accidents. The proposed framework has been validated to have better performance on parameter optimization and rule analysis in ARM. Practical applications: The hot spots of motorcycle accidents related to fatal factors are presented in GIS maps. Policymakers can refer to those maps straightforwardly when decision making. This framework can be applied to various kinds of traffic accidents to improve the performance of severity analysis. 相似文献
Three interrelated management problems—eutrophication of multiple use shallow lakes, sea level rise and flood risk mitigation and tourism pressures—are analysed in the context of an internationally important wetland area, the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads in the UK. The ecological-economic research findings presented should provide essential information to underpin the regulatory and management process in this internationally important conservation area. The relevant authority somehow has to integrate the maintenance of public navigation rights, nature conservation, and tourism promotion in a highly dynamic ecosystems setting. Because of the stakeholder conflicts, potential and actual, a more inclusionary decision-making procedure is required, and is currently being implemented. 相似文献
In revegetation trials on disturbed riverbank sites in the Montréal region (Québec, Canada), an analysis of their structure by means of their biotic and abiotic components was undertaken. Vegetation sampling and physical surveys, together with soil analyses of 62 stands, grouped in 20 sectors, were carried out in the summer of 1986. The statistical analyses of biotic and abiotic data were executed in parallel by a hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis (arithmetic average clustering) and by an ordination in reduced space (principal coordinate analysis). The species colonizing these riverbanks are, for the most part, ruderals from the Montréal region, of which more than 50% are introduced species. The pioneering communities characterizing these artificial habitats have had very little impact on the physical conditions of their environment; therefore, the ordination on the plant communities proves to be strongly correlated to the ordination stemming from the abiotic components. The statistical analysis retains the original sectors, underlining the fact that each human intervention generally results in the creation of a particular ecological situation. 相似文献
The ecological systems of Earth are subjected to a wide array of environmental stresses resulting from human activities. The
development of appropriate environmental protection and management policies and the appropriate allocation of resources across
environmental stresses require a systematic evaluation of relative risks. The data and methodologies for comprehensive ecological
risk assessment do not exist, yet we do have considerable understanding of econological stress-response relationships. A methodology
is presented to utilize present knowledge for assignment of relative risks to ecological systems and human welfare from anthropogenic
stresses. The resultant priorities, developed for the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) relative risk reduction project,
highlight global climate change, habitat alteration, stratospheric ozone depletion, and species depletion as the highest environmental
risks, significantly diverging from the present emphasis by EPA and the public on toxic chemical issues. Enhanced attention
to ecological issues by EPA and development of ecological risk assessment methodologies that value ecological and economic
issues equitably are key recommendations. 相似文献
Arthropod communities in pear are conceptualized as hierarchically organized systems in which several levels of organization
or subsystems can be recognized between the population level and the community as a whole. An individual pear tree is taken
to be the community habitat with arthropod subcommunities developing on leaf, fruit, and wood subcommunity habitats. Each
subcommunity is composed of trophically organized systems of populations. Each system of populations is comprised of a functional
group or guild of phytophagous arthropods that use the habitat primarily for feeding but also for overwintering or egg deposition,
and associated groups of specialized predators, parasitoids, and hyperparasitoids. Several species move from one subcommunity
to another during the course of community development and thus integrate community subsystems.
Community development or change in organization through time is conceptualized as being jointly determined by the development
of the habitat and the organization of the species pool. The influence of habitat development on community development within
a species pool is emphasized in this research. Seasonal habitat development is expressed as change in the kinds and biomasses
of developmental states of wood, leaf, and fruit subcommunity habitats. These changes are accompanied by changes in the kinds,
biomasses, and distributions of associated community subsystems. 相似文献