Human factor tests on car demonstrator Deliverable no D6.4. Final draft

The main objective of the COMUNICAR on-road tests was to evaluate the effect on driver’s workload, acceptance, system usability and driving performance when using the COMUNICAR multimedia HMI which integrates innovative I/O devices and the Information Manager (IM). All these criteria are expected to support the safe performance of the primary...

Test results evaluation: Pilot evaluations Deliverable no D6.5. Final draft

This deliverable describes the User Centred Design approach that has been adopted within the COMUNICAR project. In this design approach several iterative steps were taken to design and evaluate the multimedia Human Machine Interface that is able to manage all the information exchanges between the driver and the vehicle according to the driving...

Cooperative driving in an intelligent vehicle environment (CO-DRIVE)

The Co-Drive project is aimed at the development of an open, in-vehicle research and development ICT-platform for intelligent services. This paper focuses on two of these services: the safety interface with the driver (BIBI) and the dynamic travel guidance. BIBI is a Dutch acronym for Supremely Intelligent Co-driver Interface and is the priority...

Behavioral reactions to advanced cruise control: Results of a driving simulator experiment

This chapter describes an experimental study that is conducted in the driving simulator at the Centre for Environmental and Traffic Psychology (COV) of the University of Groningen. In the experiment, two groups of drivers, who differed with respect to reported driving style in terms of speed, drove on a motorway and on a rural road route in the...

A Dutch database on automated vehicle guidance: From vision to reality

Driving behaviour parameters and accident risk with driver support

Driver behaviour research in road traffic encounters the problem that it is often not clear how behavioural effects can be translated into real risk indicators. Most driver behaviour studies that study the effects of a specific driver support system end with conclusions in terms of changes in driving behaviour as a result of driving with the...

Driving with intelligent vehicles. Driving behaviour with ACC and the acceptance by individual drivers

This paper presents an overview of the work of a PhD project performed within the research programme "Technology Assessment Automatic Vehicle Guidance" concerning individual driver behaviour and acceptance of Adaptive Cruise Control [1]. It describes and discusses the results of a questionnaire study and two experimental driving simulator...

Adaptive cruise control: individual differences and actual driving behaviour

Driving with intelligent vehicles: driving behaviour with Adaptive Cruise Control and the acceptance by individual drivers

This thesis focuses on the following research questions: What are the effects of driver support systems on driving behaviour? To what extent will driver support systems be accepted by individual drivers? To what extent will driving behaviour and acceptance be determined by individual differences? Based on a literature study an integrated...

Modeling driver behaviour with different degrees of automation: a hierarchical decision framework of interacting mental models