The relationship between level of engagement in a non-driving task and driver response time when taking control of an automated vehicle

P Rauffet, A Botzer, C Chauvin, F Saïd… - Cognition, Technology & …, 2020 - Springer
Drivers of conditionally automated vehicles may occasionally be required to take control of
their vehicle due to system boundaries, but their performance in such cases might be …

Relationship between braking intensity and driver heart rate as a function of the size of the measurement window and its position

T Hirsh, Y Sahar, O Musicant, A Botzer… - … research part F: traffic …, 2023 - Elsevier
Heart Rate (HR) is often used to capture the driver's mental workload and stress. Usually,
during a predefined time window (eg, 10 s, 30 s, or longer). In addition, the center of that …

The effects of implementing human valence into the behavioral model of a fully autonomous vehicle

O Fartook, G Cohen-Lazry, A Borowsky - Transportation research part F …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective To test in two experiments whether people would be more willing to use a Level-5
Fully Autonomous Vehicle (FAV) if the FAV's driving model is enhanced with human …

Factors related to rapid deceleration events among a large cohort of older drivers

DW Eby, LJ Molnar, JS Zakrajsek, LH Ryan… - … research part F: traffic …, 2019 - Elsevier
Studies over the past two decades have attempted to document and understand factors
related to crashes involving older drivers to develop more effective countermeasures to …

Modeling social rejection, physiological arousal, and peer influence on risky driving among adolescents and young adults

JE Sutherland, U Hassein, DM Day, SM Easa - Transportation research part …, 2022 - Elsevier
Peer passengers are a significant risk factor for young drivers to experience adverse driving
outcomes. However, few studies have manipulated social evaluation contexts and individual …

Speed-related surrogate measures of road safety based on floating car data

J Ambros, C Jurewicz, A Chevalier… - Research Methods in …, 2021 - Springer
To overcome limitations of crash-based analyses of road safety, researchers are looking for
surrogate measures of safety. Floating car data (FCD, or probe vehicle data) provides …

Using physiological metrics to improve reinforcement learning for autonomous vehicles

M Fleicher, O Musicant, A Azaria - 2022 IEEE 34th International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thanks to recent technological advances Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) are becoming
available at some locations. Safety impacts of these devices have, however, been difficult to …

Mapping grip force characteristics in the measurement of stress in driving

Y Sahar, T Elbaum, O Musicant, M Wagner… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Reducing drivers' stress can potentially increase road safety. However, state-of-the-art
physiological stress indices are intrusive and limited by long time lags. Grip force is an …

Changes in physiological indices and deceleration behaviour as functions of braking demands and driver's physiological cluster

O Musicant, I Laufer, A Botzer - … research part F: traffic psychology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Physiological indices (eg heart rate and skin conductance) hold potential as monitoring tools
for driver behaviour and mental workload. However, their effectiveness in this respect is …

Investigating Drivers' knowledge and experience with the anti-lock braking system (ABS) which led to the development and evaluation of an emergency braking …

L Mims - 2022 - tigerprints.clemson.edu
The purpose of this dissertation was to explore the extent to which drivers do or do not have
knowledge of and experience with the anti-lock braking system (ABS) and then to explore …