Multitasking while driving: a time use study of commuting knowledge workers to access current and future uses

Thomaz Teodorovicz, Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun and Orit Shaer

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Abstract: Commuting has enormous impact on individuals, families, organizations, and society. Advances in vehicle automation may help workers employ the time spent commuting in productive work-tasks or wellbeing activities. To achieve this goal, however, we need to develop a deeper understanding of which work and personal activities are of value for commuting workers. In this paper we present results from an online time-use study of 400 knowledge workers who commute-by-driving. The data allow us to study multitasking-while-driving behavior of com-muting knowledge workers, identify which non-driving tasks knowledge workers currently engage in while driving, and the non-driving tasks individuals would like to engage in when using a safe highly automated vehicle in the future. We discuss the implications of our findings for the design of technology that supports work and wellbeing activities in automated cars.

Keywords: in-vehicular user interfaces; time-use study; automated vehicles; knowledge workers; commuting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2022-04-05
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Working Paper: Multitasking while driving: a time use study of commuting knowledge workers to access current and future uses (2022)
Working Paper: Multitasking while driving: a time use study of commuting knowledge workers to access current and future uses (2022)
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