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Publications by Gretchen Paelke (bibliography)

1993

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Serafin, Colleen, Wen, Cathy, Paelke, Gretchen and Green, Paul (1993): Car Phone Usability: A Human Factors Laboratory Test. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 37th Annual Meeting 1993. pp. 220-224.

“This paper describes an experiment that examined the effect of car phone design on simulated driving and dialing performance. The results were used to help develop an easy to use car phone interface and to provide task times as input for a human performance model. Twelve drivers (six under 35 years, six over 60 years) participated in a laboratory experiment in which they operated a simple driving simulator and used a car phone. The phone was either manually dialed or voice-operated and the associated display was either mounted on the instrument panel (IP) or a simulated head-up display (HUD). The phone numbers dialed were either local (7 digits) or long distance (11 digits), and could be familiar (memorized before the experiment) or unfamiliar to the subject. Four tasks were performed after dialing a phone number, two of the tasks were fairly ordinary (listening, talking) and two required some mental processing (loose ends, listing). In terms of driving performance, dialing while driving resulted in greater lane deviation (16.8 cm) than performing a task while driving (13.2 cm). In addition, the voice-operated phone resulted in better driving performance (14.5 cm) than the manual phone (15.5 cm) using either the IP display or HUD. In terms of dialing performance, older drivers dialed 11-digit numbers faster using the voice phone (12.8 seconds) than the manual phone (19.6 seconds). Dialing performance was also affected by the familiarity of numbers. Dialing unfamiliar numbers using the voice phone was faster (9.7 seconds) than using the manual phone (13.0 seconds) and 7-digit unfamiliar numbers were dialed faster (8.2 seconds) than 11-digit unfamiliar numbers (14.5 seconds). Thus, the voice-operated design appears to be an effective way of improving the safety and performance of car phone use, but the location of the display is not important.”

1991

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Green, Paul, Williams, Marie, Serafin, Colleen and Paelke, Gretchen (1991): Human Factors Research on Future Automotive Instrumentation: A Progress Report. In: Proceedings of the Human Factors Society 35th Annual Meeting 1991. pp. 1120-1124.

“This paper describes a 2-1/2 year project concerning human factors and future driver-information systems. The project goals are to (1) develop human factors guidelines, (2) devise test methods for safety and ease of use, and (3) develop a model that predicts driver performance when using these systems. A literature review has been completed and focus groups that identified driver needs have been conducted. In addition, a method was developed to select the most beneficial systems using accident reduction, congestion relief, and driver needs/wants as the criteria. Consequently, car phones, navigation, traffic information, vehicle monitoring, and hazard warning systems were selected for further study. Preliminary versions of each have been designed and laboratory tests are in progress. Usability tests in a driving simulator and on the road are scheduled.”

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