Dr Gemma Briggs, OU Senior Lecturer in Psychology, provided evidence for a Road Safety: driving while using a mobile phone report out today (13 August 2019).
Dr Briggs supports the view that hands-free phone use is equally as distracting as hand-held use and can cause drivers to look directly at hazards yet fail to notice them.
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A new publication from the Commonwealth of Learning, authored by Professor Sara de Freitas and Professor Denise Whitelock at The Open University's Institute of Educational Technology, offers timely guidance on the responsible use of conversational agents in tertiary education