This article examines city bus drivers’ behaviour, culture, and daily life in their work environment – particularly mutual communication, relationships between drivers passengers, issues faced, feelings experienced by when performing job. I present data through autoethnographic testimony depicting my personal experience as an anthropologist-bus driver Prague. The terrain showed that autoethnogr...

This paper describes our first step for advances in humanmachine interactive systems for in-vehicle environments of the UTDrive project. UTDrive is part of an on-going international collaboration to collect and research rich multi-modal data recorded for modeling behavior while the driver is interacting with speech-activated systems or performing other secondary tasks. A simultaneous second goa...

The objective is to increase the passenger road transportation safety by developing an improved model of transport process with minimal risks incidents. Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) was used determine factors influencing reliability transportation, which based on study functions six different aspects: time, control, output, resource, prerequisites, and input. It clarified that ma...

Virtual instruments for remote experiments visualization implemented with LabVIEW graphical software tool are presented. First solution uses low cost web cameras with universal serial bus (USB) interface and NI-IMAQ for USB Cameras driver. Images from any USB imaging device with DirectShow support can be acquired with these free software driver. Images acquired within server application are los...

This chapter discusses our research efforts in tracking driver distraction using multimodal features. A car equipped with various sensors is used to collect a database with real driving conditions. During the recording, the drivers were asked to perform common secondary tasks such as operating a cell phone, talking to another passenger and changing the radio stations. We analyzed the difference...

This paper presents a general high level estimation model of communication thmughputfor the implementation of a given communication protocol. The model, which is p a n of a larger model that includes component price, sofr. ware driver object code size and hardware driver area, is intended to be general enough to be able to capture the characteristics of a wide range of communication pro to col....