Detailed view
V-HCD ("Virtual Human-Centred Design")
The "V-HCD" platform (for Virtual Human Centred Design) is an immersive simulation platform designed to support a human-centred virtual design approach for future driver assistance and automation devices. The aim of this equipment is to enable the specification, design and evaluation of future driver assistance systems, as well as their modes of interaction / cooperation with the human driver. The aim is to provide a tool for better understanding, via digital simulation, the needs and expectations of future end-users, right from the earliest stages of the technological design process (including from a simple assistance "concept").
Practical information
Themes/sub-themes
- Mobility and simulation
Industrial sector(s)
- Automotive industries
Laboratory
- TS2/LESCOT - Laboratory for Ergonomy and Cognitive Sciences in Transportation
Field of expertise
- Driver assistance
- Autonomous driving
- Human-centered AI
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The platform in detail
User-centered design, development and evaluation of driver assistance and/or automation functions (including their HMI). This platform is based on the cognitive driver simulation model COSMODRIVE (also developed at the LESCOT Laboratory of Univesité Gustave Eiffel). Use of the platform in several projects dedicated to driver modeling (HoliDes [Holistic Human Factors and System Design of Adaptive Cooperative Human-Machine Systems, ARTEMIS-IA 2013-2016], HFAuto [Human Factor for Automated Driving, ITN Marie Curie, 2014-2017], SURCA [Sécurité des Usagers de la Route et Conduite Automatisée, 2018-2022]) or to the design of driving automation functions / Human-Centered AI for in-vehicle monitoring g. VI-DAS [Vision Inspired Driver Assistance Systems, H2020 2016-2019], SUaaVE [SUpporting acceptance of automated VEhicle, H2020 2019-2022]).
The platform is used as a course theme, for example at the École Nationale Supérieur de Sciences Cognitives de Bordeaux [ENSC] and as an experimental tool for the realization of several thesis works in the LESCOT laboratory.
Industrial partnership with ESI group since 2017 (presentation of the ESI pae platform at CES 2017 and 2018). Partnership with several international teams (Fiat Research Center, IDIADA, IBV, University of Munich, Gröningen, Bordeaux) in the framework of the H2020 SUaaVE project dedicated to the study of the acceptability/acceptance of the automated vehicle and to the "human-centered" design of an "empathetic" autonomous vehicle (the V-HCD platform constituting the demonstrator of the project) This platform has also been used to design and evaluate advanced HMIs to facilitate the recovery of the automated vehicle with Toyota Motor Europe (2 HMI patents filed in connection with this partnership in 2017 and 2020).