Testing a structural model of young driver willingness to uptake Smartphone Driver Support Systems

Kervick, Aoife; Hogan, Michael; O’Hora, Denis; Sarma, Kiran

doi:10.1016/j.aap.2015.07.023

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“…The potential population impact of these efficacious technologies, like other commitment devices and apps to promote safe driving, is a product of uptake, defined as adoption and use, and efficacy (individual effectiveness conditional on uptake). (12, 25) Based on this, to be effective, these applications and settings need to be designed so that they do not simply attract highly motivated parents and teens, who might change their behavior on their own, but those who are at higher risk for engaging in this behavior and who are likely to be less motivated to install and maintain such an application on their phone.…”

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“…privacy concerns from parental monitoring) being less of a factor. (12) More recently, on June 5, 2017 Apple (Cupertino, CA) announced a “Do Not Disturb While Driving Mode” that became available as an iPhone operating system feature in Fall 2017 that can be turned on to lock the phone screen and silence and send automated responses to incoming text messages while driving. (13)…”

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confidence: 99%

“…A promising approach to increased adoption of these applications and settings to sustainably change behavior is to increase perceived gains of these actions by providing financial incentives. (12, 14) This could be brought to scale through usage-based auto-insurance programs that use mobile telematic smartphone apps to provide insurance discounts based on monitored driving and phone use behavior. (15) The effectiveness of financial incentive strategies in usage-based insurance programs could be enhanced by leveraging insights from behavioral economics as has been effective for health behavior change.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Attitudes on technological, social, and behavioral economic strategies to reduce cellphone use among teens while driving

Delgado

McDonald

Winston

et al. 2018

Traffic Injury Prevention

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Objective The majority of U.S. teens admit to handheld cellphone use while driving, an increasingly common cause of crashes. Attitudes towards novel cellphone applications and settings that block use while driving are poorly understood, potentially limiting uptake. We examined teens’ willingness to reduce cellphone use while driving and perceptions of potential strategies to limit this behavior. Methods Teen drivers (n=153) aged 16–17 who owned smartphones and admitted to texting while driving completed an online survey. Survey instruments measured willingness to give up cellphone use and perceptions of technological and behavioral economic strategies to reduce cellphone use while driving. We used Chi-square tests to test the hypothesis that willingness to give up certain types of cellphone use while driving and the perceptions of strategies to reduce cellphone use while driving would differ by self-reported frequency of texting while driving in the past 30 days (low [1–5 days] vs. high [6 or more days]. Results Most teens were willing or somewhat willing to give up reading texts (90%), sending texts (95%), and social media (99%) while driving. However they were not willing to give up navigation (59%) and music applications (43%). Those who engaged in high-frequency texting while driving were more likely to say they were not willing to give up navigation applications (73% vs. 44%, P <0.001), music applications (54% vs. 32%, P <0.001), and reading texts (15% vs. 4%) (P = 0.029). Overall, the following strategies where rated as likely to be “very effective” for reducing texting while driving: gain-framed financial incentives (75%), loss-framed financial incentives (63%), group-based financial incentives (58%), insurance discounts (53%), automatic phone locking while driving (54%), email notifications to parents (47%), automated responses to incoming texts (42%), peer concern (18%), and parental concern (15%). Those who engaged in high-frequency texting while driving were less likely to say that following strategies would be very effective: automated responses to incoming texts (33% vs. 53%, P=0.016), peer concern (9% vs. 29%, P=0.002), and parental concern (9% vs. 22%, P=0.025). The strongest perceived benefit of cellphone blocking apps was decreasing distraction (86%). The predominant reason for not wanting to use this technology was not wanting parents to monitor their behavior (60%). Conclusions Promising strategies for increasing acceptance of cellphone blocking technology among teen drivers include automated screen locking and permitting hands-free navigation and music combined with behavioral economic incentives to sustain engagement.

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Attitudes on technological, social, and behavioral economic strategies to reduce cellphone use among teens while driving

Delgado

McDonald

Winston

et al. 2018

Traffic Injury Prevention

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“…Fundamentally, participants must be willing to use a particular technology, e.g. a mobile phone app, in order for the intervention to be effective [24]. Willingness requires that participants accept the technology, and that they perceive gains and little risk from its use [24].…”

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Behavior Change for Youth Drivers: Design and Development of a Smartphone-Based App (BackPocketDriver) (Preprint)

Warren¹,

Meads²,

Whittaker³

et al. 2017

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Background: The over representation of youth in road crash injury and fatality rates is a major public health problem globally. In New Zealand, youth drivers are most vulnerable in the restricted license period, when they can drive without the requirement for supervision by an experienced adult. Behavioral change interventions delivered using smartphone technology to young drivers could serve as a useful feedback mechanism for safe driving in this context, but this potential remains to be fully explored. Objective: We have applied behavioral change principles to design and develop a smartphone based intervention with the aim of helping youth drivers develop and hone safe driving skills. Methods: An iterative process was used to support development of the smartphone intervention. We reviewed behavioral change literature, identifying fundamental principles and exploring use of behavioral change techniques in other areas of public health. We engaged with key stakeholders, including young drivers, government agencies and relevant organizations. We also took into account technology adoption considerations when designing the application. Results: We developed BackPocketDriver, an Android smartphone app that uses inbuilt sensors to monitor and infer driver behavior. The application implements features that were identified during the design process and which are traceable to behavioral change techniques. Features identified include messaging to enhance motivation and driver education, journey feedback summaries, goal setting, social support and gamification elements (achievements and leaderboards). Conclusions: BackPocketDriver's design rests on a sound foundation -behavioral change theory. With explicit links between the theory and app features, the app aims to be an effective intervention to change and improve youth driver behavior. The next phase of this work is to run a small pilot study to assess BackPocketDriver's effectiveness.

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“…Concerns however around the impact and quality of care provided to patients who use health apps in clinical practice have been raised [2,3]. Caution has been advised when using apps as they may not incorporate robust scientific evidence [2,3,4,5], may not have had expert clinically oriented input [2] or be based on behavioural change theory [4,6,7,8], factors considered important for apps to deliver positive health outcomes.…”

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Vitamin D Mobile Healthcare Applications for Consumer Use - Are They Any Good?

Tanna¹,

Oligbu²,

Boullier³

et al. 2017

JFNR

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Introduction: Members of the public interested in changing their health behaviour and comfortable with use of social media can download and purchase commercially developed lifestyle and or healthcare computer software. This is facilitated by the increase in technologically advanced, often elegantly designed, small screen portable in-built computerised systems on mobile smart-phones. Aims: With increasing awareness of use of Vitamin D for improved health outcomes, the aims for this study were to identify and evaluate any Vitamin D mobile smartphone healthcare applications (apps) available for public or consumer use. Methods: Incorporating a multi-phase mixed study design, in phase one Vitamin D apps on mobile smart-phones were identified and categorised by consensus using the Delphi technique. In phase two a database search was undertaken to gain an understanding of research undertaken on use of healthcare apps and any evaluation of outcomes. In phase three a modified validated mobile applications rating scale (MARS) was utilised to evaluate the apps identified in phase one. Each app that provided some health information was assigned objective scores for information quality, and subjective quality and app specific rating scores. Discussion: No Vitamin D apps were identified where evaluation in research trial settings has shown significant beneficial health outcomes. However the literature search helped to identify criteria that form a potential checklist for any future development of a Vitamin D app for consumer use. Use of the modified MARS, with scores assigned for validated information quality criteria, identified two apps which were rated highly but with use restricted to medical teams, and seven apps focusing on dietary intake. Results: Nine apps were identified supporting some level of healthcare delivery and assigned MARS scores. Seven of these apps focused primarily on Vitamin D nutritional support. There were no high quality Vitamin D apps identified that could help consumers with decision on Vitamin D supplementation.

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Testing a structural model of young driver willingness to uptake Smartphone Driver Support Systems

Cited by 36 publications

References 40 publications

Attitudes on technological, social, and behavioral economic strategies to reduce cellphone use among teens while driving

Attitudes on technological, social, and behavioral economic strategies to reduce cellphone use among teens while driving

Behavior Change for Youth Drivers: Design and Development of a Smartphone-Based App (BackPocketDriver) (Preprint)

Vitamin D Mobile Healthcare Applications for Consumer Use - Are They Any Good?

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