Discomfort, affects and coping strategies in driving activity

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Abstract

Psychological comfort/discomfort is a global feeling constructed from the affective states which are lived by the users during the activity. This empirical study is about discomfort and emotions lived during all sorts of driving situations, and it is based on "explicitation interviews" and questionnaires. The analysis allowed us to specify the categories of uncomfortable situations during driving and their level of discomfort, to develop the underlying cognitive and social sources of discomfort (need of multiple attention; impossible anticipation; loss of control and feeling of un-ability; social image and relation), and to look at how people cope with the disagreeable situations, specifying the different types of coping modes (internal coping, external coping, avoidance).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the ECCE 2008
Subtitle of host publicationEuropean Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics: The Ergonomics of Cool Interaction
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2008
Event15th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics the Ergonomics of Cool Interaction, ECCE 2008 - Funchal, Portugal
Duration: 16 Sept 200819 Sept 2008

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume369

Conference

Conference15th European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics the Ergonomics of Cool Interaction, ECCE 2008
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityFunchal
Period16/09/0819/09/08

Keywords

  • affects
  • comfort
  • coping
  • discomfort
  • driving
  • emotions
  • subjective experience

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