2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Evaluation of reality of driving simulators to judge driving ability of elderly people

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23656161
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Dynamics/Control
Research Institution	The University of Tokyo
Principal Investigator	NAKANO Kimihiko 東京大学, 大学院・情報学環, 准教授 (90325241)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	PARK Kaechang 高知工科大学, 地域連携機構, 客員教授 (60333514)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2012
Keywords	交通機械制御 / ドライビングシミュレータ
Research Abstract	Comparing with the results of the driving tests of actual automobiles, reality of two types of driving simulators, fixed-base and motion-base, are evaluated as a tool to judge driving ability of elderly people.The behaviors of the drivers, when they are imposed on additional auditory calculation task, are observed. It is found the results obtained through experiments using the motion-base driving simulator are significantly closer to the results of the real driving tests than the fixed-base simulator, although there is a common problem that simulator sickness tends to be easily induced in elderly people.

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