Music Selections for Improving Road Safety
19 June 2017
Music with certain characteristics may impede on driving performance and increase risk taking behaviours, which compromises the safety of drivers, passengers, and pedestrians. In this study, we ask participants to use our music player (an Android mobile app) when listening to music on the road. It will monitor the music being played whilst driving, and at the same time measure its influence on a set of driving performance measures.
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Ethical approval
This study has been approved by the University of Liverpool Ethics committee.
About the researcher
Dr Eduardo Coutinho received is a Lecturer in Music Psychology at the University of Liverpool (UK). He works in the interdisciplinary fields of Music Psychology and Affective Computing, where his expertise is in the study of emotional expression, perception and induction through music, and the automatic recognition of emotion in music and speech. Currently his work focuses on the understanding the impact of music in in everyday life activities.
