Human Factors

Call for Papers for Special Issue on Human Factors and Automation in Vehicles

By Natasha Merat & John D. Lee, Special Issue Editors

     Original research papers describing recent empirical work in the area of highly automated driving are sought for a special issue of Human Factors. Although this will be the core focus of the special issue, a limited number of manuscripts describing driver behavior related to individual warning and assistance systems may also be considered. Likewise, although the core of the special issue will be papers describing research conducted within cars and trucks, papers creating an appropriate link between road surface vehicles and what is an already well-understood topic in aviation and the railways will also be considered.

     Example topics include, but are not limited to:

• An understanding of the effect of highly automated vehicles on various aspects of driver behavior including situation awareness, trust, acceptance, usability, comfort, loss of skill, locus of control, workload, behavioral adaptation, and risk compensation
• Design and implementation of appropriate Human Machine Interfaces for such highly automated vehicles
• Design solutions and implementation of such automated systems in vehicles
• Measuring driver response to scenarios in a highly automated vehicle
• The effect of such systems on driver distraction
• An understanding of driver behavior during transitions between manual and highly automated driving

The deadline for submission of manuscripts is November 1, 2010. Submitted articles should follow the general guidelines provided by Human Factors in the Instructions for Authors. All manuscripts will undergo a rigorous peer review process, managed by the editors of this special issue. For more details, click here.

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