Living in a Simulation? An Empirical Investigation of the Smart Driving Simulation Test System

Forthcoming at Journal of the Association for Information Systems

45 Pages Posted: 18 Feb 2021

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Wen Xie

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Xin Xu

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Ruiqi Liu

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Yong Jin

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Wenchao Bai

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Qiang Li

South China Agriculture University

Date Written: December 22, 2020

Abstract

The internet of things (IoT) generally refers to the embedding of computing and communication devices in various types of physical objects (e.g., automobiles) used in people’s daily lives. This paper draws on feedback intervention theory to investigate the impact of IoT-enabled immediate feedback interventions on individual task performance. Our research context is a smart test-simulation service based on internet-of-vehicles (IoV) technology that was implemented by a large driver-training service provider in China. This system captures and analyzes data streams from onboard sensors and cameras installed in vehicles in real time and immediately provides individual students with information about errors made during simulation tests. We postulate that the focal smart service functions as a feedback intervention (FI) that can improve task performance. We also hypothesize that student training schedules moderate this effect and propose an interaction effect on student performance based on feedback timing and the number of FI cues. We collected data about students’ demographics, their training session records, and information about their simulation test(s) and/or their official driving skills field tests and used a quasi-experimental method along with propensity score matching to empirically validate our research model. Difference-in-difference analysis and multiple regression results support the significant impact of the simulation test as an FI on student performance on the official driving skills field test. Our results also supported the interaction effect between feedback timing and the number of corrective FI cues on official test performance. This paper concludes with a discussion of the theoretical contributions and practical significance of our research.

Keywords: Internet of Things, Internet of Vehicles, Feedback Interventions, Feedback Timing, Quasi-Experiments, Driver Training

Suggested Citation

Xie, Wen and Xu, Xin and Liu, Ruiqi and Jin, Yong and Bai, Wenchao and Li, Qiang, Living in a Simulation? An Empirical Investigation of the Smart Driving Simulation Test System (December 22, 2020). Forthcoming at Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3753329

Wen Xie

Hong Kong Polytechnic University ( email )

Xin Xu

Hong Kong Polytechnic University ( email )

Hong Kong
China

Ruiqi Liu

Hong Kong Polytechnic University ( email )

Yong Jin (Contact Author)

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ( email )

Hong Kong

Wenchao Bai

Hong Kong Polytechnic University ( email )

Qiang Li

South China Agriculture University ( email )

WU SHAN ROAD
TIANHE DISTRICT
Guangzhou, 510642

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