Application of VR and HF technologies for improving industrial safety

Safety in industrial environments can nowadays be regarded as an issue of major importance. Large amounts of money are spent by industries on this matter in order to improve safety in all levels, by reducing risks of causing damages to equipment, human injuries or even fatalities. Virtual Reality (VR) has proved to be ideal for providing...

Integrating VR and knowledge-based technologies to facilitate the development of operator training systems and scenarios to improve process safety

Process safety can be regarded of paramount importance since any malfunction or mal-operation of a hazardous processing plant may lead to accidents that will cause damage to properties, injury to people and may even result in fatalities. This project investigates how Virtual Reality (VR) and knowledge-based (in particular rule-based)...

Supporting observers during distributed team training: The development of a mobile evaluation system

Distributed team training, often in joint settings, is becoming more and more important in the military training today. As the teams and training staff are not physically on the same location, special attention should be paid to performance measurement and feedback. The question is what should be measured in distributed training and how the...

MOPED - A mobile evaluation system to support observers during distributed team training

Distributed team training, often in joint settings, is becoming more and more important in the military training today. As the teams and training staff are not physically on the same location, special attention should be paid to performance measurement and feedback. Important questions are what should be measured during distributed team training...

The development of MOPED - a mobile tool for performance measurement and evaluation during distributed team training

Distributed team training, often in joint settings, is becoming more and more important in military training today. Performance measurement and feedback are crucial for effective team training. To support observers during distributed team training the Mobile tool for Performance measurement and Evaluation during Distributed team training (MOPED)...

De mogelijkheden van een rijsimulator voor onderzoek

New road designs tested in a driving simulator

De evaluatie van signalering in tunnels en van fysieke afscheidingen van speciale Automatische Voertuig Geleidingsstroken zijn voorbeelden hoe de rijsimulator zinvol kan worden ingezet bij het wegontwerp.

Assessing human factors of new road designs in a driving simulator

The TNO Human Factors Research Institute conducts several behavioural studies in a driving simulator focussing on assessing human factor issues of new road designs. Following a brief description of the TNO driving simulator, two examples of such studies are presented. One example includes the evaluation of two Variable Message Sign (VMS) Schemes...

Acceptance of Automated Vehicle Guidance (AVG): Transport System, System Reliability and Exit Manoevres

A driving simulator study was carried out to study driver behaviour in case of an Automatic Vehicle Guidance (AVG) system. Three types of transfer of control for leaving an automated lane were compared. Furthermore the effect of trust in the automated system on the relationship between AVG headway and driver comfort was investigated. The results...

Behavioural aspects of automatic vehicle guidance: the relationship between headway and driver comfort

Automation of road traffic may have a large potential for improving the performance of the traffic system. For the not too distant future, systems that support or automate parts of the driving task will appear on the market. On a longer term fully automated driving on parts of the road network may become possible. The acceptance of automated...

Visualization of the Ekeberg tunnel for assessing human factors aspects in the design phase

Tijd- en file-informatie op wisselwegwijzers

Het doel van de studie is het bepalen van de meest wenselijke vorm van informatieverschaffing aan de automobilist (filelengte-informatie versus reistijd of vertragingstijd informatie), in samenhang met de betrouwbaarheid van de informatie. In een rijsimulator zijn de effecten op keuzegedrag en rijgedrag onderzocht van het op wegwijzers aangeven...

Een simulatorstudie naar de effecten van wisselbewegwijzering op keuzegedrag en rijgedrag

Wisselbewegwijzering is een middel om verkeersstromen van een oorspronkelijke route te doen divergeren naar een alternatief. De geneigdheid bij bestuurders om te divergeren zal afhangen van de wijze waarop het wisseladvies wordt gepresenteerd. In een simulatorstudie zijn diverse uitvoeringsvormen met elkaar vergeleken in termen van keuzegedrag...