HELP-- Does A Cell Phone Conversation Affect Reaction Time?

[Mannie1453]

Hello.. This is my second year of doing this project and last year at the state science fair the judges mentioned that this project would be easier to understand if it was timed. Any Suggestions? Also-- Any idea on how to graph my information?

[deleted-2574]

Hi Mannie1453,

That's an interesting and timely question! Hope the information below answers your question. If not, or if you have additional questions, please post again.

The sciencebuddies page for this project is at:
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... p009.shtml
Another science project is described at:
http://www.usc.edu/CSSF/History/2004/Projects/J0312.pdf

(in fact, talking on a cell phone is considered as bad, if not worse as alcohol, please see http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_talking_ ... ction_time
or
http://www.associatedcontent.com/articl ... ation.html
(Don't test this!)
Worse yet is texting, please see:
http://www.news9.com/Global/story.asp?S=10737002 or
http://othellooutlook.com/?p=3895

(http://othellooutlook.com/?p=3895 also makes the claim that the reaction time of a 20 year old using a cell phone is the same as an 70 year old not using a cell phone. Age is another area to test, and can be portrayed graphically.)

The graphing mentioned is to use a table of the results with an average row rather graphic form of presentation, please see:
http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:GXa ... clnk&gl=us

[Mannie1453]

I need some guide questions for my project. Any good ideas.
I already have:

1) How many states have a ban on texting while driving?
2) How many states have a ban on talking on a cell phone while driving?
3) How many accidents are caused a year due to distracted driving?
4) What other studies found about cell phone use while driving?
5) Is talking on a cell phone as bad as driving with alcohol? ALREADY ANSWERED ABOVE
6) Is age a difference in reaction time? ALREADY ANSWERED

I need some more guide questions and maybe some links to answer the ones I have above for my bibliography. Thanks.

[deleted-2574]

Hi Mannie1453,

Those are excellent questions you have!

To do further research and find references, I would suggest providing "cell phone reaction time" to google.com.

Another question that pops up is to compare using a cell phone to another activity such as adding up numbers. You may think of another distracting activity. There may be others in the google output, which I have only partially looked at.