Principal Investigator: Yi-Ching Lee, PhD, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

New technologies such as in-vehicle monitoring systems offer the potential to improve safety by generating alerts and positive feedback when certain driving practices are detected. With the combination of positive feedback and motivational incentives, behaviors from risk-taking-prone teen and young drivers may be changed to be more positive and less risky. The long-term goal is to understand the effect of positive reinforcement on the shaping of teen and youth driving behaviors by gathering teen and young drivers’ perspectives on positive reinforcement through reviews of technologies, collection of qualitative and quantitative data, and discussion with experts and IAB members.

Principal Investigator: Yi-Ching Lee, PhD, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Below is an executive summary of this project. Please note that this summary describes results and interpretation that may not be final. Final interpretation of results will be in the peer-reviewed literature.

New technologies such as in-vehicle monitoring systems offer the potential to improve safety by generating alerts and positive feedback when certain driving practices are detected. With the combination of positive feedback and motivational incentives, behaviors from risk-taking-prone teen and young drivers may be changed to be more positive and less risky. The long-term goal is to understand the effect of positive reinforcement on the shaping of teen and youth driving behaviors by gathering teen and young drivers’ perspectives on positive reinforcement through reviews of technologies, collection of qualitative and quantitative data, and discussion with experts and IAB members.

This project is currently ongoing. Findings will be published here when the project is complete.