Ross Bower

UX Engineer with more than ten years of experience building high quality interfaces and experiences, specializing in animation design, performance optimization, and human factors

Research

Comparing Driver Distraction in Touchscreen and Physical Vehicle Interfaces

As in-car interfaces shift from physical controls to touchscreens, the safety implications remain underexplored. This between-subjects study measured driver visual distraction using NHTSA glance metrics while participants completed common in-vehicle tasks on each interface type. Touchscreen participants produced 14× more NHTSA violations, accumulated 6× more eyes-off-road time, and averaged nearly 3× more glance deviations — while also rating the touchscreen lower on usability, confidence, and perceived safety. Co-authored with Samyukta Iyengar, Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics.

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Education

M.S. Human-Computer Interaction
Drexel University, 2024–2026
Research: Driver distraction in touchscreen vs. physical vehicle controls. Between-subjects study using NHTSA glance metrics — touchscreen interfaces produced 14× more violations and 5× longer gaze deviations.

B.S. Computer Science
Drexel University, 2007–2012
Senior Project: Uniconf, a cross-platform conference management app built with Unisys. Awarded U.S. Patent US20130238704A1.

Skills

Languages Swift, C#, JavaScript, Objective-C, Python, C

Platforms iOS, SwiftUI, Xbox / UWP, React Native, .NET

Tools Xcode, Visual Studio, Figma, Zeplin, Git

Research HCI study design, mixed-methods evaluation, NHTSA metrics

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Comparing Driver Distraction in Touchscreen and Physical Vehicle Interfaces

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