Somya Joshi

Driver–Vehicle–Environment Monitoring for On-board Driver Support Systems: Lessons Learned From Design and Implementation

This paper is presenting the efforts to implement in real time and for on-board applications a set of Driver-Vehicle-Environment (DVE) monitoring modules based on the theoretical work done in DVE modelling within the EC 6th FW co funded AIDE Integrated Project. First the need for such an implementation will be discussed. Then the basic DVE modelling principles will be introduced and analysed. Based on that and on the overview of the theoretical work performed around the DVE modelling, the real time DVE monitoring modules developed in this project will be presented and analysed. To do this the DVE parameters needed to allow the required functionalities will be discussed and analysed. Special attention will be given to the use cases and scenarios of use for the real time DVE modules. This allows the reader to understand the functionalities that these modules enable in tomorrows vehicles that will integrate a large degree of automation supported by advanced integrated and adaptive human machine interfaces (HMIs). The paper will also present examples of the functional and technical tests and validation results for some of the DVE modules. The paper will conclude with a discussion around the lessons learned about the design and implementation of such systems. This will include also the next steps and open issues for research in order for these systems to become standard modules in tomorrows vehicles.

Perceptions of Risk and Control: Understanding Acceptance of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems

With a marked increase in advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) being designed and deployed for cars, there is a logical emergence of studies that critically examine the influence these have on driver behavior and attitudes towards risk and safety. The research question addressed within this paper asks to what extent the level of perceived criticality or risk on the part of drivers influences their acceptance of advanced assistance.

Expanding the Boundaries: A SIGCHI HCI & Sustainability Workshop

Following a challenge issued to the Sustainable HCI (SHCI) community to broaden its boundaries to increase breadth and depth of impact [16] this workshop will explore 5 key questions to encourage SHCI research to play a broader role in tackling global sustainability issues and to support the societal change that this will require. Out of this, it will produce a map of existing and future research agendas, and a collaborative position statement. It will also provide an environment of support and challenge to allow individuals working in this research area to consider their personal practice and the difficulties (both practical and emotional) they may encounter.

Whose future is it anyway?: limits within policy modeling

In the age of Big Open Linked Data (BOLD), we inhabit a landscape where future scenarios are imagined, modeled, planned for and embedded in policy. Between the euphoric techno-utopian rhetoric of the boundless potential of BOLD innovations and the dystopian view of the dangers of such innovations (e.g. ubiquitous surveillance etc.), this paper offers a critical understanding of the boundaries that are traversed by the implementation of BOLD within policy modeling. We examine BOLD as a tool for imagining futures, for reducing uncertainties, for providing legitimacy and for concentrating power. In doing so we further develop the LIMITs communitys conceptualization of the societal limitations on computing, with specific reference to the assumptions, interpretations and trust that we place in these models when making socio-environmental policy decisions. We use an illustrative case of policy modeling, which provides a much-needed critical discussion of the inherent limitations and risks as well as the promises that are offered by BOLD.

Provocation, Conflict, and Appropriation: The Role of the Designer in Making Publics

The role and embodiment of the designer/artist in making publics is significant. This special issue draws attention to reflexive practices in Art & Design, and questions how these practices are embedded in the formations and operations of publics, grounded in six cases of participatory design conducted in the United States, India, Turkey, England, Denmark, and Belgium. From these design practices, typologies of participation are formulated that describe the role of the designer. These typologies describe different and sometimes conflicting epistemologies—providing designers with a vocabulary to communicate a diversity of participatory settings and supporting reflexive practices.