Transferability of driver speed and lateral deviation measurable performance from semi-dynamic driving simulator to real traffic conditions

Purpose This manuscript presents the experimental plan and results of driver trials conducted with a semi-dynamic driving simulator and an equipped research vehicle in real traffic conditions. Document type: Articl

Auto-personalization: Theory, practice and cross-platform implementation

In an increasing digital society, access to information and communication technologies (ICT) is no longer just helpful but has become a necessity. However, the human interfaces appearing on these ICT (and increasingly, even common household products) are beyond of the abilities of many people with disability, digital literacy, or aging related limitations. Access to these ICT is essential to these individuals yet it is not possible to create an interface that is usable by all. This paper introduces a new approach to auto-personalization that is based on the development of the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure (GPII). The GPII is a new international collaborative effort between users, developers and industry to build a sustainable infrastructure to make access to all digital technologies technically and economically possible, including access by users who are unable to use or understand today�s technologies. Based on a one-size-fits-one approach, the GPII uses auto-adapting mainstream interfaces, and ubiquitous access to assistive technologies when mainstream interfaces cannot adapt enough, to provide each user with the interface they need. The GPII has three main components: a mechanism to allow individuals to easily discover which interface variations they need and then store it in a secure way on a token or in the cloud; a mechanism to allow them to use these stored needs and preferences to automatically adapt the interfaces on the digital technologies they encounter, anywhere and anytime; and a resource for developers (mainstream and assistive technology) providing the information and tools required to develop, disseminate, and support new access solutions more simply, more quickly, and at lower cost

Modeling of driving behaviour in driving simulator and correlation with real traffic conditions

The current doctoral dissertation deals with driving simulator validity, meaning the level of validity of the results coming from trials in driving simulators in relation to the ones stemming from tests in real traffic conditions. Driving simulator validity constitutes one of the most critical criteria of the adequacy of driving simulator use in the research as well as training/assessment of driving skills research fields.Η παρούσα διδακτορική διατριβή πραγματεύεται το αντικείμενο της αξιοπιστίας του προσομοιωτή οδήγησης, δηλαδή, το βαθμό εγκυρότητας των αποτελεσμάτων που προέρχονται από δοκιμές σε προσομοιωτή οδήγησης αναφορικά με τις δοκιμές σε πραγματικές συνθήκες οδήγησης. Η αξιοπιστία του προσομοιωτή αποτελεί ένα από τα πιο σημαντικά κριτήρια καταλληλότητας του προσομοιωτή στο χώρο της έρευνας και της εκπαίδευσης/αξιολόγησης οδηγικών ικανοτήτων

A UCD approach towards the design, development and assessment of accessible applications in a large scale European Integrated project

ÆGIS (Open Accessibility Everywhere: Groundwork, Infrastructure, Standards) is a user-centred project, involving several user groups (users with visual, hearing, motion, speech and cognitive impairments as well as application developers) throughout the design, development and assessment phases. In this paper the holistic UCD (User Centred Design) approach of the project is introduced. This approach ensures that the project's objectives to determine whether 3rd generation access techniques will provide a more accessible, more exploitable and deeply embeddable approach in mainstream ICT applications (desktop, rich Internet and mobile applications) are met, with the full support and involvement of a huge end-user group in every single step of the design, development and deployment of accessible mainstream ICT.Book subtitle: ADDRESSING DIVERSITYstatus: publishe

Using Personas to capture Assistive Technology Needs of People with Disabilities

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Modelling the User

The relatively high percentage of people with disabilities in Europe combined with its aging population, the strong relation of impairment to age, and people with disabilities‘ dissatisfaction with or even unawareness of available assistive technology, reveal the necessity to incorporate a user-centric approach that, beyond second-generation practices, will provide embedded and built-in accessibility solutions, as well as toolkits for developers, for 'engraving' accessibility in existing and emerging mass-market ICT-based products, aiming to make accessibility open, plug and play, personalized and configurable, realistic and applicable in various contexts, always keeping the user in the loop. The ÆGIS IP project seeks to determine whether third-generation access techniques will provide a more accessible, more exploitable and deeply embeddable approach in mainstream ICT. This paper presents the holistic User Centred Design implementation plan, upon which ÆGIS has been based, in order to achieve its targets, starting from modelling its target users, in the most efficient way possible.status: publishe