The primary purposes of a vehicle driver's seat, is to allow them to complete the driving task comfortably and safely. Within each class of vehicle (e.g. passenger, commercial, industrial, agricultural), there is an expected driving position to which a vehicle cabin is designed. This paper reports a study that compares two driving positions, in relation to Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs), in t...

Typically, Information Systems (IS) are used to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of processes. On the one hand, mobile IS, with their ubiquitous character, have the potential to extend the application range of traditional IS. On the other hand it is also known that mobile IS have drawbacks, like a small screen size and limited processing power. The question arises if mobile IS changes d...

background: we determined the levels of subjective and observer drowsiness and facial dynamics changes. methods: this experimental study was done in the virtual reality laboratory of khaje-nasir toosi university of technology in 2015. facial dynamics changes like changes in eyes, mouth and eyebrows were surveyed on twenty-five drivers in 2015bykss (karolinska sleepiness scale) and ord (observer...

music has been used as mood modulator by humans for many years. nowadays music is mostly play as one of the switch in a car. although music listening is common at during driving. its impact on driving performance has developed debates and controversies. studies have shown that self-selected in-car music listening can improve driver’s mood and behavior. however other studies have reported that b...

driver fatigue may impose the risk of crashes and is a leading cause of death in transportation industry. this study aimed to detect driver cognitive fatigue based on changes in eeg frequency bands in non-professional drivers during a simulated driving task. in a descriptive-analytical study, 12 healthy male car drivers took part in a two hour driving session on a simulated monotonous road, whi...

Driver distraction has become a critical area of study both for research in investigating human multitasking abilities and for practical purposes in developing and constraining new in-vehicle devices. This work utilizes an integratedmodel approach to predict driver distraction from a primarily cognitive secondary task. It integrates existing models for a sentence-span task and driving task and ...

This position paper states our new approach of implementing low-level OS components, especially device drivers. We introduce the notion of concurrent objects into low-level system programming. A device driver for every hardware device is implemented as independent concurrent objects. A device driver object has a single thread of control, so that mutual exclusion operations such as spl and semap...

Modeling driving behavior and emulating driver control strategy is one of essential parts for risk assessment and auxiliary control in the driver assistance system and vehicle active safety system. In this paper, we propose a proposed model is intuitive and can clearly describe the habit and randomness of the lane-change behavior with limit parameters. Especially, by using the proposed model an...

In this report, literature pertaining to training the post-cerebral vascular accident (CVA) driving candidate is reviewed; a driver training program is described, with special emphasis on evaluating the CVA candidate; the role of the occupational therapist as a disabled driver training instructor is outlined; information and suggestions for comprehensive evaluation and training of right- and le...

I n t e l l i g e n t T r a n s p o r t a t i o n S y s t e m s intervention. Many DAS applications are safety oriented, such as lane departure warning systems. Some are comfort oriented, such as automated parking assistants. Still others are designed to alleviate the driver's attentional load—for example, traffic signal detectors or the already deployed intelligent cruise control systems. Thes...