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SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijhcs

Special Issue on Driver-Centered Design
 

General Theme

In recent years, Driver Support Systems (DSS) have become commonplace in
vehicles produced by car manufacturers. Not only does their technology have
high stakes in terms of safety, but they should also bring pleasure and
inspire trust to convince customers. The advent and growth of these systems
played an important role in the appearance of ubiquitous and mobile
computing as a major research theme in the HCI community.

The design of DSS is currently undergoing some crucial evolutions. Binary
signals and alerts are replaced by continuous feedback and information flow.
Systems that replace drivers in specific sub-tasks by taking control over
them (a source of rejection from drivers) are superseded by systems that
keep drivers in the loop and support them by providing perceptual and
control augmentation. In this perspective, Intelligent DSS (IDSS) have to be
integrated within the driver's environment, and provide constant support
without interfering with his anticipations and responses to potentially
dangerous situations.

This evolution calls for a paradigm shift, where the design and evaluation
process is grounded on the key component of an IDSS: the driver.
Understanding and formalizing the driver's behavior, perception and
sense-making is obligatory to design intelligent vehicles that respond in
relevant ways to various situations (including critical ones) according to
the driver's perspective.

Many complementary approaches and disciplines are used to capture knowledge
of driver's needs for technological design. Each having their own costs and
benefits, they take different options regarding:

    * The degree of control in data collection, where:
          o Studying real-world situations informs on the variety of
ecologically valid needs;
          o Using simulators allows quantitative and comparable measures,
necessary for statistical validity.
    * The relationship between data and theory, where:
          o Bottom-up approaches build a posteriori models from their
datasets, which ensures an adequate description of the observed phenomena
          o Top down approaches test predefined hypothesis, which allows
automated analyses of larger datasets and ensures the formality of resulting
models

In this special issue, we propose to explore the foundations of a new
driver-centered design paradigm, by confronting the contribution of these
different and complementary approaches.
 

Topics

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, we intend to focus this special issue
on the intersections and relationships between the following topics of
Driver-Centered Design:

    * Theoretical frameworks: Matching the system behavior with the driver's
cognitive processes requires integrating information from the physical and
social context. Several theoretical approaches, like Cognitive Psychology,
Distributed Cognition, Situated Action, Ecological Design, etc. propose
notions to integrate the driver's perspective of the situation into the
system design.
    * Experimental setup: Simulators provide powerful controlled
environments to test specific hypotheses extensively. On the other hand,
ethnographic approaches allow observing how drivers actually experience
real-world situations and finding interesting hypotheses to be tested in
more controlled experiments.
    * Technical tools for observation and analysis: Contextual studies of
real situations and controlled experiments alike can take advantage of the
progress of digital technology to develop new tools for data collection and
analysis. Test bed vehicles and simulators capture what is going on with,
inside and outside the car. Video processing algorithms and information
visualization applications provide powerful tools for analysis.
    * Capturing cognitive processes and specifying contextual needs.
Providing perception and control augmentation requires identifying what
information a driver needs, when he needs it and how he is likely to
interpret it. In describing the driver's needs, scenario and descriptive
models may be closer to his perspective; computational and quantitative
models offer the possibility of a statistical validation; simulations may
capture the dynamical aspect of cognitive processes.
    * Acceptability of a new system: The first moments of use of a new
system are crucial, as they determine its adoption, and as the special
attention required during this training period cause distraction. The
system, and the way it is introduced to drivers, have therefore to be
designed to support them in developing understanding, trust and appropriate
practices over time.
    * Technology interaction and integration. As multiple DSS interact
within the vehicle, they need to be integrated into a coherent source of
support for the driver, including existing tools.

 
Submissions

Original papers presenting unpublished material relating to research in, but
not restricted to, these topics are invited for consideration for the
special issue.

Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words.

Special attention in the review process will be paid to how contributors:

    * Discuss the perspective of their own position regarding the degree of
control of the situation and the relationship between data and theory (cf.
General Theme);
    * Present some innovation related to one or several of the topics
presented above;
    * Relate their contribution to previous work in the field.

Papers should be submitted in the IJHCS format, and will be refereed in the
standard way. Details of the IJHCS format can be found in the journal, and
are available from http://authors.elsevier.com/journal/ijhcs. All
manuscripts should be submitted through Elsevier's online Editorial Manager:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/ijhcs.

Authors of submitted papers may be invited to take part in the review
process.

Electronic Submission Instruction

    * To submit to the "Driver-Centered Design" Special Issue, please
clearly state in the 'Enter Comments' section when submitting your paper
online that it is intended for the "Driver Centered Design" Special Issue
being edited by JB Hau and Pierre Fastrez.
    * If you are a first time user of the Editorial Manager, you will have
to register yourself as an author on the system by going to:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/ijhcs/ and clicking on the "register"
button. You should then follow the instructions for submitting a new
manuscript, remembering to state that this is for the Special Issue.
    * If you have any problems with the system please contact Fred Kop at
the IJHCS Editorial Services Office at [log in to unmask]

 
Important dates

    * Submission deadline: 1 August 2005
    * Notification to authors: 15 October 2005
    * Final submission: 15 November 2005

Note that these dates are provisional, and may change in the near future.
Up-to-date information is available on the web at
http://hci.ucsd.edu/idss/specialissue.htm.


Guest Editors

Jean-Baptiste Haué <[log in to unmask]>,
CRAFT, EPFL, Switzerland

Pierre Fastrez <[log in to unmask]>,
Dpt of Communication, UCL, Belgium

Please feel free to contact the Editors by email if you have any questions.

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