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

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  • Andrew L. Kun
  • Raffaella Sadun
  • Orit Shaer
  • Thomaz Teodorovicz

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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.

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  • Andrew L. Kun & Raffaella Sadun & Orit Shaer & Thomaz Teodorovicz, 2022. "Multitasking while driving: a time use study of commuting knowledge workers to access current and future uses," POID Working Papers 028, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
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    In-vehicle user interfaces; time-use study; automated vehicles; knowledge workers; commuting;
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