Driver Interface Research: Safety and Usability

Our research concerns the design of driver interfaces for motor vehicles of the future.  We are interested evaluating the design of head-up displays, navigation systems, warning devices, cellular phones, and the use of email and the internet while driving.  We are also interested in the general problems of driver workload, driver distraction, future directions in telematics.  See www.umich.edu/~driving.

 

Student Tasks and Responsibilities: Students assist in all phases of our research including the design of experiments, writing instructions for subjects, testing drivers on the road and in our simulator, reducing response time, lane keeping, and eye fixation data, producing summary tables and figures, writing reports, recruiting subjects, and developing simulator scripts.