This paper provides data and initial results from an ethnographic study of mobile phone use in traffic, where the aim is to investigate the 'interactional adaptation' by which drivers fits the involvement with the phone with driving and vice versa. By taking part of drivers' daily work, and video recording their activities of driving and handling the mobile phone, we are able to reveal details which we believe could not be found in experimental studies with a constructed setup. Apart from presenting findings from the study of drivers' phone use, we discuss methodological issues. (Author/publisher)
Samenvatting