State-of-the-art of the SNRA/JARI/BASt joint research on driver workload measurement within the framework of HRA-ITS
- The Swedish National Road Administration (SNRA), the Japanese Automobile Research Institute (JARI) and the Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) are co-operating in the International Harmonized Research Activities on Intelligent Transportation Systems (IHRA-ITS). Under this umbrella a joint study was conducted. The overall objective of this study was to contribute to the definition and validation of a "battery of tools" which enables a prediction and an assessment of changes in driver workload due to the use of in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) while driving. In this sense \"validation\" means to produce empirical evidence from which it can be concluded that these methods reliably discriminate between IVIS which differ in terms of relevant features of the HMI-design. Additionally these methods should also be sensitive to the task demands imposed on the driver by the traffic situation and their interactions with HMI-design. To achieve these goals experimental validation studies (on-road and in the simulator) were performed in Sweden, Germany and Japan. As a common element these studies focused on the secondary task methodology as an approach to the study of driver workload. In a joint German-Swedish on-road study the Peripheral Detection Task (PDT) was assessed with respect to its sensitivity to the complexity of traffic situations and effects of different types of navigation systems. Results show that the PDT performance of both the German and the Swedish subjects reflects the task demands of the traffic situations better than those of the IVIS. However, alternative explanations are possible which will be examined by further analyses. Results of this study are supplemented by the Japanese study where informational demands induced by various traffic situations were analysed by using a simple arithmetic task as a secondary task. Results of this study show that relatively large task demands can be expected even from simple traffic situations.
Author: | Christhard Gelau, Georg Jahn, Josef F. Krems, Uno Hiroshi, Albert Kircher, Joakim Östlund, Lena Nilsson |
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Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2014/09/22 |
Year of first publication: | 2003 |
Contributing corporation: | Technische Universität <Chemnitz> |
Release Date: | 2014/09/22 |
Tag: | Fahrer; Fahrerassistenzsystem; Fahrerinformation; Fahrzeuginnenraum; Intelligentes Transportsystem; Konferenz; Prüfverfahren; Schnittstelle; Simulation; Standardisierung; Stress (psychol); Verkehr Conference; Driver; Driver assistance system; Driver information; Intelligent transport system; Interface; Interior (veh); Simulation; Standardization; Stress (psychol); Test method; Traffic |
Comment: | Volltext: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/esv/esv18/CD/Files/18ESV-000242.pdf. Außerdem beteiligt: Japanese Automotive Research Administration, Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute |
Source: | Proceedings of the 18th International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles, Nagoya, Japan, 19-22 May 2003 |
Institutes: | Abteilung Fahrzeugtechnik / Abteilung Fahrzeugtechnik |
Sonstige / Sonstige | |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 62 Ingenieurwissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeiten |
collections: | BASt-Beiträge / ITRD Sachgebiete / 83 Unfall und Mensch |
BASt-Beiträge / Tagungen / International Technical Conference on the Enhanced Safety of Vehicles (ESV) / 18th ESV Conference 2003 |