Smartphone Feedback to Encourage Safe Driving

Smartphone Feedback to Encourage Safe Driving

A randomized field trial tested whether smartphone-based feedback with personalized goals can promote safer driving behavior compared to standard insurance messaging. The study, led by Jeff Ebert with co-authors Kate McDonald and Kit Delgado,contributes to growing...
‘Daring’ to Succeed in Automotive Safety

‘Daring’ to Succeed in Automotive Safety

In this Q&A, meet Valentina Graci, PhD, a researcher in the Center for Injury Research and Prevention and leader of the Sled Laboratory for Automotive Safety and Rehabilitation Biomechanics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute. She explains...
Valentina Graci, PhD

Valentina Graci, PhD

Dr. Graci is an Assistant Research Professor in the School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health System at Drexel University and at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CIRP) at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). She is the Inaugural...
Elizabeth Walshe, PhD

Elizabeth Walshe, PhD

Dr. Walshe is a cognitive neuroscientist with expertise in driver safety research, and past expertise in older adult falls research. Dr. Walshe currently leads the Neuroscience of Driving research program that conducts studies at the population-, clinical-, and...
PISC Co-Director Receives High Honor

PISC Co-Director Receives High Honor

Kate McDonald, has been honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest U.S. government award for early-career researchers. A professor and department chair at Penn Nursing, McDonald was recognized for her pioneering...
Driving simulator predicts riskiest teen drivers

Driving simulator predicts riskiest teen drivers

Elizabeth Walshe speaks with PBS member station WITF’s The Spark about a recent publication (with Flaura Winston, Dan Romer, and Allison Curry) as well as the broader issue of road traffic injury amongst teenagers.