18 - 19 October 2004
Centre for Accident Research & Road Safety - Queensland (CARRS-Q)Queensland University of Technology
Carseldine Campus
Brisbane - Queensland - Australia
| Program |
| Background |
| Objectives |
| Topics |
| International Keynote Speakers |
| Presentation |
| Contact |
| Support |
Background
It is widely acknowledged that driving in monotonous conditions affect
driver's vigilance. It is now technically possible to monitor and diagnose
driver behaviour impairment with the aid of different in-vehicle sensors
(physiological, car dynamics, environments). However a valid framework
for the evaluation of driver impairment such as fatigue, hypovigilance
or monotony is still lacking. What role will technology be likely to
play in the future world of transport? What will be the challenges,
key issues and problems that must be adressed to have a practical technology
which can detect hypovigilance in a workplace. What are the research
problems that will emerge once the technology is widely used? This workshop
is organised by CARRS-Q, QUT and aims to promote the interaction between
researchers and practitioners concerned with endogenous and exogenous
factors impairing human behaviour evolving in a monotonous setting.
Attendees will include researchers and practitioners working on fatigue/vigilance
from the perspective of engineering, psychology and human movement.
Objectives
This workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for sharing research
and fostering connections among experts and practitioners working in
the field of transportation, engineering and health, in order to develop
a comprehensive research program and intervention to address the issue
of fatigue and impaired driving/work/flying due to the monotony of task.
The workshop organisers will begin with a draft outline of the roadmap,
and this will coalesce through the discussions. Participants will be
invited to present and identify promising trends including their own
work and experience reports. The outcomes of the workshop will be folded
into an overall roadmap of what is the state of the art, what works
in practice, what needs to be done and where the research is heading.
Post workshop proceedings will include summary of each presentation
and the result of workshop discussions.
- Model of driver fatigue
- Endogenous and exogenous factors affecting driver's vigilance
- Effect of habituation, boredom and monotony on human behaviour
- Innovative medical and health applications addressing hypovigilance
- Physiological sensors to detect fatigue/monotony
- Development and evaluation of new ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems) technology to diagnose and detect hypovigilance
- Environmental factors in fatigue
- Drivers at risk of monotony
- Temporal factors causing monotony
- Measures to identify monotony related fatigued drivers
- Enforcement (educational) and behaviour change
- Impact of monotony on road crashes
- Measurement and rupture of monotony
International
Keynote Speakers
Thomas J Balkin, PhD
Chief, Department of Behavioural Biology
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Silver Spring, USA
Pierre Thiffault, PhD
Research Analyst - Transport Canada
Dr Dominique Gruyer, PhD
Project Leader
INRETS (French National Institute Road Safety)
France
Presentation
To enable genuine interaction and assure a high quality scientific program,
interested people are encouraged to contact the organisers. Attendance
is by invitation only. Authors are expected to contribute toward meeting
the workshop objectives. The authors will present their work for 45
minutes followed by discussions. At the workshop, a computer running
Windows, a data/video projector and an overhead projector will be available
for use. If you wish to use your own equipment which requires access
to the Internet, please indicate this in advance.
Contact
Andry Rakotonirainy
Email: r.andry@qut.edu.au
Tel: +61 7 3138 4683
Fax: +61 7 3138 7532
Support
This workshop is partially supported by the International Science Linkages
programme established under the Australian Government's innovation statement,
Backing Australia's Ability and the French Embassy in Australia.
