Applications, is the premier forum for UI research in the automotive domain. AutomotiveUI brings researchers and practitioners interested in both the technical and the human aspects of in-vehicle user interfaces and applications. AutomotiveUI'14 will address novel in-vehicle services, models of and concepts for enhancing the driver experience, driver performance and behavior, development of (se...

The purpose of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) is that driver error will be reduced or even eliminated, and efficiency in traffic and transport is enhanced. The benefits of ADAS implementations are potentially considerable because of a significant decrease in human suffering, economical cost and pollution. However, there are also potential problems to be expected, since the task of dr...

one component of intelligent transportation systems, IV systems use sensing and intelligent algorithms to understand the vehicle’s immediate environment, either assisting the driver or fully controlling the vehicle. Following the success of information-oriented systems, IV systems will likely be the “next wave” for ITS, functioning at the control layer to enable the driver–vehicle “subsystem” t...

Crashes at rail level crossings represent a significant problem, both in Australia and worldwide. Advances in driving assessment methods, such as the provision of on-road instrumented test vehicles, now provide researchers with the opportunity to further understand driver behaviour at rail level crossings in ways not previously possible. This paper gives an overview of a recent onroad pilot stu...

OBJECTIVE Our research examined the effects of practice on cell-phone-related driver distraction. BACKGROUND The driving literature is ambiguous as to whether practice can reduce driver distraction from concurrent cell phone conversation. METHODS Drivers reporting either high or low real-world cell phone usage were selected to participate in four 90-min simulated driving sessions on success...

This paper formulates the vehicle navigation task as a constrained optimal control problem with constraints bounding a traversable region of the environment. A model predictive controller iteratively plans an optimal vehicle trajectory through the constrained corridor and uses this trajectory to establish the minimum threat posed to the vehicle given its current state and driver inputs. Based o...

The paper addresses the problem of vehicle rollover avoidance using reference governors applied to modify the driver steering input in vehicles with an active steering system. Several reference governor designs are presented and tested with a detailed nonlinear simulation model. The vehicle dynamics are highly nonlinear for large steering angles, including the conditions where the vehicle appro...

In this paper we introduce a 'vehicle tracking' task, which tests the ability of a driver to track the location of multiple vehicles on the roadway. Based on the 'multiple object tracking' task (Pylyshyn & Storm, 1988), the vehicle tracking task presents the driver with an array of identical vehicles immediately in front of the subject vehicle. The task consists of three distinct stages: encodi...

Testing and assessing of vehicle control systems require realistic environment, which requires enormous workload; to some extend it is impractical to set up the realistic environment. A comprehensive traffic environment simulation model has been designed and implemented for supporting vehicle control system development. The model consists of tow sub models: the motorway traffic flow model and d...