Interaction Design Foundation
Free educational materials - made by the world's technology elite
 
Join us on Linkedin
Join us on Twitter
Join us on Google plus
Get our RSS Feed
 
 
ReferencesNavigation arrowAuthorsNavigation arrowCarol F. Shoptaugh
Jun 20

“ ...that strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface ”

-- Steven Johnson, 1997

 
 

Featured chapter

Read the fascinating history of Wearable Computing, told by its father, Steve Mann

Read Steve's chapter !

 
 

Latest books

The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building technologies for communities
by Brian Whitworth and Adnan Ahmad

 
Start reading

The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.
by Mads Soegaard and Rikke Friis Dam

 
Start reading
 
 

Help us help you!

 
 

Carol F. Shoptaugh

Picture of Carol F. Shoptaugh. Copyright unknown.
Add description
Add publication

Publications by Carol F. Shoptaugh (bibliography)

 what's this?
1988
 
Edit | Del

Shoptaugh, Carol F. (1988): Risktaking and Driver Behaviors: A Laboratory Study. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 32nd Annual Meeting 1988. pp. 923-927.

“A number of variables have been implicated as predictors of actual risky driving behaviors. However, due to differing methodologies, the literature shows few consistent findings. The current study is an attempt to establish a more complete understanding of the relationship between risk related characteristics and actual risk taking decisions. It was predicted that individuals who had a greater propensity for taking risks would also be more prone to making risky decisions in a simulated driving task. Sixty subjects (30 male, 30 female) were selected based on their Kogan and Wallach Choice Dilemma risktaking scores (15 high and 15 low risk takers in each gender group). Subjects participated in two 1 1/2 hour experimental sessions. Session one was a video tape risk choice session and session two, a battery of demographic, driving and risktaking characteristic questionnaires were given. The most significant finding in this study involved the misuse of speed and distance in making turn decisions. All subjects adopted a safer criterion than the normative model for left turn gap distances, but for right turn merging gaps high risktaking subjects perceived significantly more gaps as safe than did low risktaking subjects. Further, as speed increased from 30mph to 55mph all subjects believed more gaps to be safe for right turn merging. This miscalculation could result in a rear end accident. Most demographic, driver and risktaking measures failed to correlate significantly with risky decision making. Only the Choice Dilemma and the Pelz-Schuman Impulsivity questionnaire correlated with each other and the risky driver decisions.”

© All rights reserved Shoptaugh and/or Human Factors Society

 
Add publication
Show list on your website
 
 

Join the technology elite and advance:

 
1.

Your career

 
2.

Your network

 
 3.

Your skills

 
 
 
 
 
 

Changes to this page (author)

25 Jun 2007: Added

Page Information

Page maintainer: The Editorial Team
URL: http://www.interaction-design.org/references/authors/carol_f__shoptaugh.html
Jun 20

“ ...that strange new zone between medium and message. That zone we call the interface ”

-- Steven Johnson, 1997

 
 

Featured chapter

Read the fascinating history of Wearable Computing, told by its father, Steve Mann

Read Steve's chapter !

 
 

Latest books

The Social Design of Technical Systems: Building technologies for communities
by Brian Whitworth and Adnan Ahmad

 
Start reading

The Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction, 2nd Ed.
by Mads Soegaard and Rikke Friis Dam

 
Start reading
 
 

Help us help you!

 
 
 
 
About | Press kit / Media kit | Copyright/IP Policy | General Terms of Use / General Site Terms and Conditions | Privacy Policy

How to help | Site Map

RSS Subscribe through an RSS feed
 
.