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 commuting 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. © 2022
Andrew L. Kun, Raffaella Sadun, Orit Shaer and Thomaz Teodorovicz
1 June 2022
International Journal of Human Computer Studies 1622022
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2022.102789
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1071581922000180
This work is published under POID and the CEP's Growth programme.