Driver assistance for patients having visual field defects based on metaphor of guide dogs

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26540094
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Human interface and interaction
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: ITOH Makoto 筑波大学, システム情報系, 教授 (00282343)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ヒューマンマシンシステム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

It might be difficult for people having visual field defects to drive a car safely. With a small technological support, however, they could perform safe driving. By assuming people with visual field defects drive their car, this paper tried to develop guidelines of design and operation of a driver assistance system. Such a driving system may have to have a functionality that it rejects driver’s order in order to attain safety. This could be a realization of so-called “intelligent disobedience” that guide dogs for blind people may do in order to save the user’s life. In order to make such assistance system acceptable to drivers, their trust in the system would play the key role. This study thus investigated how to design systems to be trusted.

Free Research Field

認知システム安全工学