An experimental study for testing two different input methods, mouse and touch screen, to explore impact on reliability and validity of driving assessment

Abstract

This paper examined the reliability and validity of driving assessment (Driving Health Inventory) under two input techniques (mouse and touch screen). A sample of 30 students at Soon Chun Hyang University, aged between 20 and 24, completed a computerized driving assessment which included a maze test and trail making tests A and B combined. Test-retest reliability of the scores for the PC versions of the Maze Test were significantly high for mouse (r = .990) and touch screen (r = .991), and for the Trail Making Tests (r = .986 for mouse and r = .990 for touch screen). Our findings also indicated that the touch screen input method required less time for both the Maze Test and Trails A and B Tests completion, although the overall time results were also highly correlated. © 2015 American Scientific Publishers. All rights reserved.