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Detection of Distracted Driving: A Smartphone-Based Approach

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Road accidents cause 1.35 million deaths a year and have now become the leading cause of death between the ages of 5 and 29. CAReful is an application that can be used while driving to detect dangerous behaviors, such as drowsiness, turning the head, using the smartphone, or the presence of excessive noise. CAReful uses different sensors to monitor the driver, such as the microphone, GPS, camera, accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer, and to obtain information about the vehicle’s speed and the road. Since driving behavior is privacy-related, all processing and storage of sensitive information occur on the user’s device.

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Cancello Tortora, G., Casini, M., Lagna, A., Marino, M., Vecchio, A. (2023). Detection of Distracted Driving: A Smartphone-Based Approach. In: Martins, A.L., Ferreira, J.C., Kocian, A., Tokkozhina, U. (eds) Intelligent Transport Systems. INTSYS 2022. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-30855-0_11

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