Last week professor Kun and I came back from AutomotiveUI 2011. This time the conference took place in beautiful Salzburg, Austria. The conference was hosted by the University of Salzburg, located in the city’s “Old Town,” which is well known for its baroque architecture and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. …
Category Archive: Driving
Dec
19
Aug
19
Infrared Illumination when Measuring Pupil Diameter
In most of our experiments here at Project54 we incorporate eye tracking. It is useful, not only to be aware of where a subject is looking, but it can also measure pupil diameter which is an indicator of cognitive load. Over the years we have simply discounted unreliable data. Most of that unreliable data is …
Apr
12
Bryan Reimer Lecture at UNH
On April 5th, 2011 Bryan Reimer visited our labs at Project54 and gave a talk within the ECE900 seminar course. Bryan is a Research Scientist at MIT‘s AgeLab. His scientific interest includes workload assessment in simulated and non-simulated driving environments. The talk he gave was titled “Measuring the Cognitive Component of Driver Workload and Distraction”. …
Feb
07
Steering Wheel Interface
I recently read a paper describing a touch screen interface on the body of a steering wheel with the use of a webcam, projector, Wii remote(used for the driving simulation) and some acrylic glass. I thought it was interesting to see another approach at limiting distraction while driving, besides that of what Project54 is doing. …
Dec
17
Automotive UI 2010
This November, a few of my colleagues and I attended the Automotive UI 2010 Conference, held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The conference attracted a significant number of high quality presenters active in the field of automotive user interface research and design. It was held during two consecutive days and had the Bill Gates building at the …
Oct
31
NEC-HFES 2010 Student Conference
Last Friday, 22nd October 2010, Dylan Fransway, Zeljko Medenica, Mark Taipan and I attended the New England Chapter of the Human Factors Ergonomics Society (NEC-HFES) 2010 Student conference in Cambridge, MA. The event took place at the first floor conference room of the Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center. The conference featured 16 …
Oct
25
NEC HFES 2010 Student Conference
For a couple of years now our lab has been well represented in the New England Chapter of Human-Factors and Ergonomics Society’s (NEC HFES) student conference and this year was no exception. Traditionally, the conference is held in Boston and this year Microsoft Cambridge provided their meeting room for this event. The nice thing about …
Oct
21
Lexus Driving Simulator
The future of simulated driving has arrived… The developers at the Lexus research campus at Higashifuji, Japan, have created a highly sophisticated driving simulator. According to the automotive company, this is the largest and the most advanced driving simulator available today. The simulator serves as a symbolic pledge of Lexus’ dedication to the concept of …
Sep
10
Distracted Drivers
With the goal at Project54 being to produce solutions in order to create a safer environment in which the police officer can control all of the lights, radar, and various devices within his/her police car, it is interesting to see the need for similar technology within regular cars to solve the problem of distracted drivers. …