Development of Situational Awareness Measurement Methods in Virtual Reality in the Automotive Domain

BA/MA

Status	open
Advisor	Sören Klingner
Professor	Prof. Dr. Andreas Butz

Task

Description

Car accidents are a significant concern, as they claim a high number of yearly fatalities. These accidents have been accounted to originate from recognition errors, including driver's inattention, internal and external distraction, and inadequate surveillance, causing decision errors. These errors can be attributed to a lack of situation awareness. Thus the development of a tool to measure people's situation awareness in VR could be very beneficial. It could be used to assess the user's situation awareness and compare different scenarios and interfaces and their respective effects.

Tasks

Comprehensive survey of related work
Define the concept
Develop and implement your concept
Conduct a user study to test and verify your concept
Analysis, reflection and discussion of the outcomes

Requirements

Independent scientific work and creative problem solving
Able to organize and perform user studies and experiments
Interest and experience in Software Development
Interest in Psychology
Experience with programming based on practical projects
Bonus: Experience with Unreal Engine
Bonus: Experience with Virtual Reality Development

Contact

Email: klingner ät fortiss.org

Keywords

VR, Virtual Reality, Emotion, Behaviour, Environment, Stress, Relaxation, Fear, Situational Awareness, Autonomous Driving, Automotive, User Study, Virtual Reality, Psychology, HCI, 3D, Unreal Engine, Unity, Game Engine, User Profiling, User Modeling, Behavior Analytics, Interface, Interaction, User Reaction, Interaction Patterns, Programming, C#, C++, Java