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Human Factors for IntelliDrive
  • IntelliDrive Safety Workshop
  • July 20, 2010


  • Stephanie C. Binder
  • National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
  • US Department of Transportation
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What is human factors?
  • The application of knowledge about human abilities, limitations, and other characteristics to the design of equipment, tasks, and jobs
    • Human-centered design
    • Robust set of evaluation methods and design heuristics
  • For IntelliDrive, it will focus on interface designs that are effective without adding distraction
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Human Factors for IntelliDrive
  • Multiple Users:
    • Passenger vehicles
    • Heavy trucks
    • Transit operators



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Track 1: Problem Definition
  • Goal: To better understand the distraction problem in the vehicle fleet
  • Outcomes: A way to better monitor distraction for all devices/technologies
  • Main tasks:
      • Analyze National Motor Vehicle Crash Causation Study
      • Plan for analysis of SHRP
      • Improve reporting of distraction

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Track 2: Performance Metrics
  • Goal: To develop performance metrics (i.e., to establish tests) to measure distraction potential.
  • Outcomes: Objective test procedures, ratings of devices.
  • Main tasks:
      • Review of current guidelines
      • Best practices for interfaces
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Track 3: Integration Strategy
  • Goals: To determine how best to integrate multiple devices (including in-vehicle and portable), warnings to minimize distraction
  • Outcomes: Integration strategies
  • Main tasks:
      • Develop concept of operations
      • Develop test procedures
      • Assess implementation



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Track 4: Long-term Exposure
  • Goal: To understand long-term driver adaptation to better understand how driver assistance technologies impact safety
  • Outcomes: Better estimates of benefits, optimization of these driver assistance technologies through interface design
  • Main tasks:
      • Determine feasibility of a field operational study
      • If feasible, conduct the study


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Track 5: Outreach
  • Goal: To engage all stakeholders to ensure success of the program
  • Outcomes: Collaborations that will result in innovative research designs, stakeholder buy-in, and a consistent message from the program
  • Main tasks: Various meetings, including a kickoff later this year
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V2V Plan: Tracks 5 and 7
  • Track 5: Driver Issues
      • Goal: To determine the best interface design characteristics (effectiveness, driver acceptance)
      • Outcomes: Provides data on other aspects of interface design to further refine guidelines
  • Track 7d: Commercial Vehicle HF/Driver Issues
      • Goal: To develop guidelines to look at message delivery, workload
      • Outcome: Set of guidelines that will be leveraged through HFID
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NHTSA Distraction Plan
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Primary Outcomes
  • Better understanding of driver behavior
  • Improved driver assistance technologies
  • Interface design guidelines for IntelliDrive technologies