MRI: Acquisition of A High Fidelity Driving Simulator To Advance Interdisciplinary Research and Education on The Effects of Human Factors on Transportation Safety

交通事故每年夺去数千人的生命，使数百万人受伤。它们还造成了数十亿美元的财产损失。进一步提高安全水平需要解决人为因素，这是造成交通事故的主要因素之一。在这个建议中，我们考虑了认知加工领域的驱动因素。为此，本MRI项目将获得一个高保真驾驶模拟器，研究驾驶员在真实驾驶条件下的行为（如困倦、注意力不集中、认知）。这个高保真的驾驶员模拟器将作为新理论和新技术的基准研究平台和测试平台。它将支持驾驶员认知，注意力不集中和困倦的各种基础和应用研究，从中可以发现驾驶员状态的强大生理或心理指标。基于这些基础研究的创新驾驶辅助应用和临床工具将有助于实施有效的驾驶员预警策略，预防事故的发生。安全性和经济效益将是显著的。解决这一传统安全问题的方法表明了提案团队的努力，他们汇集了多学科的进展，为这一关键的运输安全问题提供了更好的解决方案。该团队有一个共同的愿景，即将驾驶员因素纳入认知处理领域，并采取跨学科的方法来干预人类行为和汽车操作之间的界面。除了先期研究外，pi将继续其长期承诺，将教育和外联活动与研究活动结合起来。通过这些努力，该设备支持的科学探索进展将及时传播给本科生、研究生、K-12学生和教师

Transportation accidents take thousands of lives and injure millions annually. They also cause billions of dollars in property damage. Further improving safety requires tackling on human factors, one of the major factors causing traffic accidents. In this proposal we consider driver factors in the realm of cognitive processing. For this purpose, this MRI project will acquire a high fidelity driver simulator to study driver behaviors (e.g., drowsiness, inattention, cognition) under realistic driving conditions. This high fidelity driver simulator will both serve as a benchmark research platform and testbed of new theories and technologies. It will support a variety of fundamental and applied research on driver cognition, inattention and drowsiness, from which robust physiological or psychology indicators of driver status can be uncovered. Innovative driver assistant applications and clinic tools resulting from these fundamental researches will help to implement effective driver warning strategy for the prevention of accident. The safety and economic benefits will be significant. The approach to address this conventional safety issue demonstrates the efforts of the proposal team to bring together progress in multiple disciplines to provide a better solution for this critical transportation safety problem. The team has a common vision of embracing driver factors in the realm of cognitive processing and taking an interdisciplinary approach for interventions in the interface between human behavior and the operation of a motor vehicle. In addition to advance research, the PIs will continue their long term commitments in integrating educational and outreach activities with research activities. Through these efforts, the progress of scientific explorations supported by this equipment will be timely disseminated to undergraduate students, graduate students, K-12 students and teachers