HUMANIST

HUMANIST - Human centred design for Information Society Technologies

This Network of Excellence aims to create an European Virtual Centre which will allow the:

• strengthening the R&D of European industries with potential inputs 
• harmonisation of the road safety and ITS approaches to the societal benefits assessment among the Member States
• quick reaction to any new technological development

In the coming years, the development of new technologies of information and communication will deeply transform transport uses and practices. If the driving task has evolved little since the creation of the motor vehicle, now is the time for rapid change due to the combined effect of widespread of in-vehicle driver information and communication systems and the emergence of advanced driver assistance systems.

Through these various systems, a certain number of functions are proposed to the driver with the objectives of to facilitating driving and improving overall safety. For example, the access to navigation information allows a lowering of the attention level involved in orientation process of the driving situation. The diffusion of traffic or meteorological information in real time allows the activation of anticipation process for critical situation avoidance. The adaptive cruise control, while maintaining a safe headway with the car ahead, decreases the driver's stress and mental load. Finally, the active assistance systems specifically conceived to take effect in accidental situations can balance some reaction latencies and decisive uncertainties of drivers.

If the current developments in road telematics and driver assistance systems can be a real opportunity to aid mobility and improve road safety, numerous questions are raised for ergonomists about driver acceptability and possible modifications of driver behaviour or attitudes. The emergence of automation technologies - assistance systems able to take care of some control tasks traditionally assigned to the driver - brings the question of the tasks dispatching between human and machine, as well as the choice of the logic used for the management of this control sharing.

The effective realisation of the expected benefits is going to depend on the condition of systems implementation - in particular, in which measure the system responds to drivers' needs, is compatible with the their functional capacities as well as satisfies the criteria of relevance, usability and acceptability. This argues for a more active participation of the human sciences in the various stages of systems conception as well as a concept of technological development determinedly centred on the human being, in which the assistance is designed according to human needs and not driven by the technological offer.

The human factors competencies exist in Europe, but are scattered through various countries, research institutes or universities. To obtain quick and effective results in this domain, it is necessary to integrate European research capacities. For this reason, 22 research institutes have joined together to create the HUMANIST Network of Excellence which aims at federating the research about user/system interactions and their applications on in-vehicle information systems / advanced driver assistance systems as well as creating a European Virtual Centre on these topics.

Partners:
Europe Recherche Transport, Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité, Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen, Centrum Dopravniho Vyzkumu, Technische Universitaet Chemnitz, Danish Transport Research Institute, Eurisco International, Factum OHG, Centre For Research & Technology Hellas/Hellenic Institute Of Transport, Belgisch Instituut Voor De Verkeersveiligheid VZW, Institute Of Communication And Computer Systems, European Commission - Joint Research Centre, National Technical University Of Athens, SWOV Institute For Road Safety Research, TNO Human Factors, Institute Of Transport Economics, TRL Limited, Universidad Politecnica De Madrid, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Statens Vag- Och Transportforskningsinstitut, Technical Research Centre Of Finland, Institute For Occupational Physiology At The University OF DORTMUND

Related documents:

HUMANIST - General leaflet	.pdf (2271 KB)
HUMANIST - Newsletter 1	.pdf (809 KB)
HUMANIST - Newsletter 2	.pdf (933 KB)
Deliverable of 2.1 Task Force 2 - Inventory of ethical laws which apply (at national and EC level) during behavioral experimental studies	.pdf (352 KB)
Deliverable D.2/E.2 - Impact of IVIS on driver workload and distraction: Review of assessment methods and recent findings	.pdf (926 KB)
Deliverable G 1 of Task Force G - Inventory of existing simulation and multimedia tools for driver training and education: Use of ITS to train and educate drivers	.pdf (418 KB)
Deliverable G2 of Task Force G - Use of ITS to train and to educate drivers: Minutes of the TFG Workshop on the Application of New Technologies To Driver Training	.pdf (271 KB)

Papers:

State of the art in Driving Simulators: Results of the Humanist Driving Simulators Inventory	.pdf (23 KB)
Driving simulators for driver training: state of the art	.pdf (297 KB)
Simulating Urban Traffic in Training Simulators	.pdf (309 KB)
Virtual Reality Devices in Driving Simulators: State of the art and ongoing developments at U.P.M.	.pdf (333 KB)
Improved realism and improved utility of driving simulators: are they mutually exclusive?	.pdf (271 KB)
TRUCKSIM; Preliminary results from cohort study in England	.pdf (678 KB)
State of the art on e-learning applications: Results of survey of e-learning	.pdf (48 KB)
Workshop on the application of new technologies to driver training	.pdf (116 KB)
Development and Usage of the Driving Simulators Since 1989	.pdf (66 KB)
Project TRAINER: Major findings relating to driving simulators	.pdf (79 KB)
Black box and possibilities of application to driver education	.pdf (184 KB)
Driver Training in the new Driving and Failures Simulator of Metro of Madrid (SICAMM)	.pdf (724 KB)
Use of simulators in basic driver training	.pdf (48 KB)
Virtual instruction in driving simulators	.pdf (152 KB)
Techniques of validation for driver's training using a driving simulator	.pdf (122 KB)
Driving simulators validation: the issue of transferability of results acquired on simulator	.pdf (20 KB)
Abstract for the Humanist Brno workshop, session 8, January 2005	.pdf (37 KB)
Drivers' training on ITS use through psychological methods: Importance and application in practice	.pdf (49 KB)
Virtual Reality Driving Simulators for Drivers Training	.pdf (11 KB)
Novice drivers and new drivers support technologies: Potentials of simulator-based training	.pdf (10 KB)

Events:

Humanist Seminar on Intelligent Transport Systems: Design and Safety 
Prague, Czech Republic
9 - 10 May 2006

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Agenda: .pdf (1831 KB)

Announcement: .pdf (653 KB)

Humanist: Tutorial on Safety of Transport Systems 
Braunschweig, Germany
24 February 2006

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Announcement: .pdf (105 KB)

Coordinator:

INRETS
Jean-Pierre Medevielle
2 av Général Malleret-Joinville
F-94114 Arcueil
France
medevielle@inrets.fr

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