Risky Gadgets to the Rescue: Designing Personal Ubicomp Devices to Foster Safer Driving Behaviours in Young Males

年轻男性在道路交通事故中所占比例过高。部分原因是他们容易厌倦，这是一种天生的性格因素，会导致冒险驾驶或分心。该项目旨在设计创新的无处不在的计算技术，使安全驾驶更加刺激和愉快。这项研究将为未来设计对道路安全构成威胁的个人无处不在的设备提供信息，方法是用更安全的刺激取代危险驾驶的刺激，并在实际不存在风险时模拟风险以增加风险感知。该项目旨在减少危险的驾驶行为，并在此过程中，提高我们对无聊在道路安全方面的作用的认识。

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.