TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding "Death by GPS"
T2 - 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
AU - Lin, Allen Yilun
AU - Kuehl, Kate
AU - Schöning, Johannes
AU - Hecht, Brent
N1 - doi:10.1145/3025453.3025737
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3025737&CFID=996385089&CFTOKEN=72751423
PY - 2017/5/2
Y1 - 2017/5/2
N2 - Catastrophic incidents associated with GPS devices and other personal navigation technologies are sufficiently common that these incidents have been given a colloquial nickname: "Death by GPS". While there is a significant body of work on the use of personal navigation technologies in everyday scenarios, no research has examined these technologies' roles in catastrophic incidents. In this paper, we seek to address this gap in the literature. Borrowing techniques from public health research and communication studies, we construct a corpus of 158 detailed news reports of unique catastrophic incidents associated with personal navigation technologies. We then identify key themes in these incidents and the roles that navigation technologies played in them, e.g. missing road characteristics data contributed to over 24% of these incidents. With the goal of reducing casualties associated with personal navigation technologies, we outline implications for design and research that emerge from our results, e.g. advancing "space usage rule" mapping, incorporating weather information in routing, and improving visual and audio instructions in complex situations. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
AB - Catastrophic incidents associated with GPS devices and other personal navigation technologies are sufficiently common that these incidents have been given a colloquial nickname: "Death by GPS". While there is a significant body of work on the use of personal navigation technologies in everyday scenarios, no research has examined these technologies' roles in catastrophic incidents. In this paper, we seek to address this gap in the literature. Borrowing techniques from public health research and communication studies, we construct a corpus of 158 detailed news reports of unique catastrophic incidents associated with personal navigation technologies. We then identify key themes in these incidents and the roles that navigation technologies played in them, e.g. missing road characteristics data contributed to over 24% of these incidents. With the goal of reducing casualties associated with personal navigation technologies, we outline implications for design and research that emerge from our results, e.g. advancing "space usage rule" mapping, incorporating weather information in routing, and improving visual and audio instructions in complex situations. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
KW - GPS
KW - Map apps
KW - Personal navigation technologies
KW - SatNav
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U2 - 10.1145/3025453.3025737
DO - 10.1145/3025453.3025737
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85044860739
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 1154
EP - 1166
BT - CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 6 May 2017 through 11 May 2017
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