Vifa 65plus - Visual driver assistance for senior citizens
Funding
SAB/ESF
Partners
Professorship of Digital signal processing and circuit technology
Professorship of Human Factors & Ergonomics
Professorship of Communications Engineering
Duration
10/2011-12/2013
Description
ViFa 65plus is an interdisciplinary research programme undertaken by a team of engineering scientists, traffic psychologists and ergonomists. They intend to develop a system to assist elderly drivers via contact analogue head-up display (HUD), which is going to project significant traffic information onto the windscreen of the car accordingly an augmented reality – approach. The system is supposed to utilise data of pre existing driver assistance systems.
Major focus of the involved engineering scientists is how to realize an extensive projection on the windscreen. This includes the selection and assembly of the required technology in a space-saving way as well as the capture and analysis of information about the position of the driver's head, which is required to realise the contact analogue projection. Traffic psychologists and ergonomists mainly concentrate on the acceptance of the system, its effects on other vehicle occupants, and how to transmit the traffic information to the driver in a reasonable way and to a carefully judged extent.
Contact
People
Dr. Tibor Petzoldt
