Play, not work, is set to become the driving force for collaborative technologies! We explore the topic of CSCP, where the ‘P’ stands for play (and in our own work also for public and performance). We review four past examples of staging public performances in collaborative virtual and mixed reality environments. We then reflect on the pros and cons of staging public performances as a research ...

Driving Simulators reproduce situations that require tracking and visual searching, the main features of real driving. This study measured the reliability of a monotonous driving scenario to detect the circadian variations of alertness in healthy subjects. Five men and five women underwent a monotonous 30 min driving simulation task every 2 h. Before each driving task subjects completed the Sta...

The present study investigated how executive functions and personality traits are related with driving performance among older drivers. Forty-two participants aged 60 and over were recruited to complete a battery of cognitive tests, measures of personality traits and an on-road driving test. Significant correlations were found between poor driving performances and low scores on tests assessing ...

Introduction: Driving is a complex and dynamic task that requires performing simultaneously several sub-tasks, as traffic management and vehicle control. Driving involves both automatic and controlled processing depending on situation met and drivers’ experience. Method: Three groups of drivers with different driving experience were submitted to a divided-attention task in order to assess the i...

This paper focuses on the lateral control of intelligent vehicles. The aim is to minimize the lateral displacement of the autonomous vehicle with respect to a given reference trajectory. The control input is the steering angle and the output is the lateral error displacement. After passivity analysis of the system to establish the properties of passivity between the inputs and outputs, we prese...

The avoidance behavior of drivers over the age of 65 was compared with drivers under the age of 60 years in an emergent traffic situation where an obstacle vehicle drives into a blind intersection in a driving simulator. The drivers generally tended to do their best driving as the required reaction time in the situation decreased. However, the avoidance performances of the older drivers were mo...