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The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Virginia (UVA) is conducting a research on next generation traveler information. In part of the study, we developed a smartphone app, "VDMS", and let traffic messages displayed on current roadside Dynamic Messages Signs be delivered through your smartphone. If you are approaching a Dynamic Message Sign and if there is a message posted on it at that time, your smartphone will "speak" to you automatically that traffic message. We want to know how the general drivers are viewing this new way of traffic information and therefore we need your participation to help us complete this study.

To participate in the research, you will have own an Android smartphone, agree to give us your email address, through which we will contact you and send you surveys, and live in Northern Virginia and commute daily on the NOVA interstate network, particularly I-66, I-95 and I-495.

You will need to download and install our app ("VDMS") on your smartphone. For the time you will participate in the test, you will use the app while you drive for at least a week: just turn it on before the start of a car trip and let it run in background while you are driving. The app will not interfere with any functions of your phone. After you have some experience with this app, you will be asked to fill in a web-based survey on your experience in using the app and your preferences.

You will also need to read a "Consent Form", shown every time you start the app, and decide whether to participate or not by clicking "Accept" or "Reject". The "Consent Form" gives you the details about the project and your rights during the participation.

As a benefit of participating in this research, you will get a free cell phone car charger from us if you provide us with your mailing address and your phone information. Also, your participation in this kind of study is valuable. You will contribute to the improvement of future connected vehicle research (http://www.its.dot.gov/connected_vehicle/connected_vehicle.htm) and advance traveler information technology.

If you are interested in participating in this research, please contact us via email (jm7md@virginia.edu) and we will send guidance for using the app and the address of the web survey.