Characteristics of touch panel operation with non-dominant hand in car driving context

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the differences of operability between dominant hand and non-dominant hand in car driving context, especially in operating of touch screen of car navigation system. For the operation of touch screen of car navigation system during car driving, the primary task is of course car driving, and the secondary task is the operation of the touch screen for a car navigation system. In this study, we drove 2 kinds of experiments; the 1st experiment was to investigate the basic usage for touch screen, and the 2nd experiment was to examine the characteristics under dual tasks; the primary and the secondary tasks. As a result, in case of single task, we could find significant differences between with dominant hand and with non-dominant hand. On the other hand, in case of dual task, we could not find significant differences so much, but only when the secondary task was not so complicated we could find statistical difference between dominant hand and non-dominant hand. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.