Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE140101542

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE140101542

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Risky Gadgets to the Rescue: Designing Personal Ubicomp Devices to Foster Safer Driving Behaviours in Young Males. Young males are over-represented in road crashes. Part of the problem is their proneness to boredom, a hardwired personality factor that can lead to risky driving or distractions. This project aims to design innovative ubiquitous computing technologies that make safe driving more stimulating and pleasurable. This research will inform the future design of personal ubiquitous devices that pose a threat to road safety, by replacing the stimuli from risky driving with safer stimuli and simulating risk to increase risk perception when it is actually not present. This project aims to reduce risky driving behaviours, and, in the process, advance our knowledge about the role of boredom in the road safety context.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-03-2014

End Date: 30-09-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $395,220.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Information Systems | Digital and Interaction Design | Computer-Human Interaction

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Road Safety | Mobile Data Networks and Services |

Other Keywords

Computer-Human Interaction | Digital and Interaction Design | Information Systems | Mobile Data Networks and Services | Road Safety

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