Moderator/151-Human Factors consideration of tele and remote operation for Automated Vehicles
Date and Time: Monday, July 10, 2023: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Natasha Merat
Professor, Human Factors of Transport Systems, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds @NatashaMerat
Presentation Description
In this session the presenters will provide a short overview of the results from research projects and activities involving human factors challenges and opportunities of tele and remote operation for highly automated vehicles, followed by a workshop allowing workshop participants to discuss and develop future research needs in this context.
Speaker Biography
Professor Merat is an experimental psychologist, leads the Human Factors and Safety Group, @ITS Leeds and is Director of Virtuocity@Leeds. Her main research interests are in understanding the interaction of road users with new technologies, inlcuding driver distraction/inattention and impairment. She is an expert in the human factors implications of highly automated vehicles. She has been PI to key pojects on AVs, including AdaptIVe , CityMobil2, InterACT, HumanDrive, L3PILOT . She currently lead the User sub-project of HiDrive. Professor Merat is Chair of the Transportation Research Board sub-committee on Human Factors in Road Vehicle Automation; the European Chair of the trilateral (EU-US-Japan) Working Group on Human Factors of Automated Vehicles, and an advisory board member of over 15 organisations, including Veoneer Inc., National Highways, AVIVA, and Chemnitz University’s Hybrid Societies research programme. She is currently leading an ISO Task Force on design guidelines for future Driver Monitoring Systems.
