During braking-to-stop manoeuvres in a fixed-base driving simulator, the paucity of visual and vestibular cues can lead to driver misperception and produce different patterns of braking response between real and simulated driving. For these reasons, drivers must adapt their behaviour in a simulator to affect a comfortable and efficient braking manoeuvre . Such behavioural adaptation is likely t...

Driver anger could be potentially harmful for road safety and longterm health. Because of its mood inducing properties, music is assumed to be a potential medium that could prevent anger induction during driving. In the current study the influence of music on anger, mood, skin conductance, and systolic blood pressure was investigated during anger inducing scenarios in a driving simulator. 100 p...

The aim of this pilot-study was to evaluate the predictive quality of a driving evaluation in a simulator for people with stroke. Twenty-seven participants with stroke completed a driving evaluation in a technically advanced driving simulator. The participants also completed an on-road driving evaluation with a pass or fail outcome. Measures generated from the assessment tool, P-Drive, were com...

Applications such as landscape planing, environmental monitoring, and flight and driving simulators have a high demand for realistic landscape models. Quantity, precision and the type of models ask for methods which automate the model generation by evaluation of remote sensing data. The presented modelling system AIDA tackles the demand for efficient representation and high realism by integrati...

Event-related brain dynamics of electroencephalographic (EEG) activity in a continuous compensatory tracking task (CTT) and in a continuous driving simulation were analyzed by independent component analysis (ICA) and time-frequency techniques. We showed that changes in the level of subject performance are accompanied by distinct changes in EEG spectrum of a class of bilateral posterior independ...

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This paper introduces the AdRacer system for multifaceted testing and in-depth analyses of game effects and in-game advertising efficiency. AdRacer combines an immersive driving simulator, 3D game environment, recording of players’ gaze directions, and application of memory tests. A pilot study tested the effects of game violence on memory for brands shown as billboard ads in a racing game. In ...

This paper introduces CARS, an open source driving simulator tool for evaluating driver distraction. We present the map editor, the driving simulation tool and the analysis tool included in CARS. Based on initial results from initial user studies we illustrate the effectiveness of CARS in evaluating different secondary tasks (e.g., compare different UIs for navigation systems) with regard to dr...

Adequate hazard perception and safe driving behavior in complex traffic situations are prerequisites for efficient emergency vehicle driving. In this field of interest, simulator training can be a useful tool to prepare young drivers to cope with the demands of real traffic conditions. In a pilot project, driving simulation as part of a comprehensive driver training program was implemented by t...

In multi-agent applications, normative systems are usually used to regulate the behavior of the agents. They provide an efficient means to ensure limited deviations from an expected ideal behavior. Many works have been done in this classical research direction, less frequent are the works on norms in simulation. In this paper we focus on simulations of spatially situated agents, typically movin...