Monitoring Driver Behaviour with BackPocketDriver

摘要

Road safety is an international public health issue with youth drivers being grossly overrepresented in road crash fatalities and injuries. Our work centres on the use of smartphone technology to deliver an intervention that aims to improve driving behaviour. In this paper we describe the technical design of our BackPocketDriver app, which monitors key facets of driver behaviour: speed and acceleration. We present the app's requirements that were elicited through engagement with stakeholders and end users, and describe how the app has been designed to satisfy the requirements. In addition, we report on a quantitative evaluation of the app and show that in addition to meeting the requirements, a contemporary smartphone has sufficient sensory fidelity for building driver behaviour apps.