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Title: Perception enhancement system for automotive steering
Authors: Giacomin, J
Berber-Solano, TP
Keywords: Perception;Information;Vibration;Steering;Automobile
Issue Date: 2005
Publisher: University of Athens
Citation: Annual Conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE 2005), Chania, Crete, Greece, September 29th - October 1st 2005.
Abstract: Laboratory-based experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of the frequency and scale of transient vibration events on the human detection of road surface type by means of steering wheel vibration. The study used steering wheel tangential direction acceleration time histories which had been measured in a mid-sized European automobile that was driven over three different types of road surface. The steering acceleration stimuli were manipulated by means of the mildly non-stationary mission synthesis (MNMS) algorithm in order to produce test stimuli which were selectively modified in terms of the number, and size, of transient vibration events they contained. Fifteen test participants were exposed to both unmanipulated and manipulated steering wheel rotational vibration stimuli, and were asked to indicate, by either “yes or no”, whether the test stimuli was from a target road surface which was displayed on a board. The findings suggested that transient vibration events play a key role in the human detection of road surface type in driving situations. Improvements of up to 20 percentage points in the rate of correct detection were achieved by means of selective manipulation of the steering vibration stimuli. The results also suggested, however, that no single setting of the MNMS algorithm proved optimal for all three road surface types that were investigated.
URI: http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/1462
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