IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/transp/v43y2020i6p539-552.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Who needs automotive on-board navigation systems? Predicting operational performance from spatial anxiety and gender differences

Author

Listed:
  • Jenhung Wang
  • Yen-Chieh Wang
  • Chung-Wei Shen
  • Pei-Chun Lin

Abstract

This paper investigates relationships among gender, spatial anxiety, and operational performance of car navigation systems (CNSs) with a traditional Chinese interface. 600 study participants performed a route-locating task on a CNS and reported their competence to cope with spatial anxiety using the Spatial Anxiety Scale. The study found that gender predicted operational performance: female participants needed more time to perform the designated navigation task than male participants; gender predicted participants’ competence to cope with spatial anxiety: female participants reported lower competence to cope with spatial anxiety than male participants, and CNS interface design predicted CNS operational performance. These findings play an important role in determining CNS adoption for drivers. Findings also provide manufacturers and marketers with reliable information regarding at whom they should target their CNS products to demonstrate that manufacturers should develop interfaces that fit small-display CNSs based on gender or create a gender-neutral user experience.

Suggested Citation

  • Jenhung Wang & Yen-Chieh Wang & Chung-Wei Shen & Pei-Chun Lin, 2020. "Who needs automotive on-board navigation systems? Predicting operational performance from spatial anxiety and gender differences," Transportation Planning and Technology, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 43(6), pages 539-552, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:43:y:2020:i:6:p:539-552
    DOI: 10.1080/03081060.2020.1780706
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/03081060.2020.1780706
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/03081060.2020.1780706?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:transp:v:43:y:2020:i:6:p:539-552. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/GTPT20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.