Automatically identifying a mobile phone user's position within a vehicle

11/11/2021

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by   Matt Knutson, et al.

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Traffic-related injuries and fatalities are major health risks in the United States. Mobile phone use while driving quadruples the risk for a motor vehicle crash. This work demonstrates the feasibility of using the mobile phone camera to passively detect the location of the phone's user within a vehicle. In a large, varied dataset we were able correctly identify if the user was in the driver's seat or one of the passenger seats with 94.9 could be used by application developers to selectively change or lock functionality while a user is driving, but not if the user is a passenger in a moving vehicle.