The "International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design" (a.k.a., the Driving Assessment Conference) was held every other year from 2001 to 2021. Below are archived conference proceedings. 

11th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design

Virtual event
July 21-23, 2021

Thank you to our 2021 sponsor: Honda

2021 Keynote Speakers

  • "Safety Assessment of the Waymo Driver," Dr. Trent Victor, Director of Safety Research and Best Practices, Waymo
  • "Automated vehicles and road safety: So what about ethics?," Professor Doctor Marieke Martens, Automated Driving & Human Interaction Professor, Eindhoven University of Technology

2021 Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award Winners

Three winners were given cash prizes for their research presentations.

Winning Abstract: 

Linda Pipkorn, Chalmers University of Technology, "Driver visual attention before and after take-over requests in conditional automation: a public road study"

Runner-Ups:

Erika Ziraldo, University of Guelph, "Vehicle Control and Driver Workload During Simulated Driving: Can Cue Substitution Compensate for Lower Simulator Feature Fidelity?"

Katelyn Schwieters, University of Minnesota, “Exploring Gender Differences in the Perception of Levels of Automation and Comfort with Autonomous Vehicles”

10th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design

Eldorado Hotel
Santa Fe, New Mexico
June 24-27, 2019

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2019 Toyota Distinguished Keynote Speaker

Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor in the School of Law and (by courtesy) in the School of Engineering at the University of South Carolina

2019 Proceedings

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2019 Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award Winners

First

Using Markovian Chains to Understand the Sequence of Drivers' Gaze Transitions During Lane-Changes in Automated Driving (34)
Rafael Gonçalves, University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Honorable Mention

The Effect of a Concussion on the Hazard Anticipation Ability in Teen Drivers (30)
Atefeh Katrahmani, Western New England University

Can Virtual Reality Headsets be Used to Measure Accurately Drivers’ Anticipatory Behaviors? (53)
Ganesh Pai Mangalore, University of Massachusetts Amherst

2019 Papers, Slides, and Posters

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9th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design 

Equinox
Manchester Village, Vermont 
June 26-29, 2017

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2017 Keynote Speakers 

  • Ron Medford, Safety Director, Self-Driving Car Team, Google[x]
  • John W. Senders, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

2017 Proceedings

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2017 Honda Outstanding Student Paper Awards 

First place

Modeling the Effect of Subtask Boundaries on Driver Glance Behavior (59)
Ja Young Lee, John D. Lee (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Runners-up

A New Method for Estimating Effects of Visual Field Loss in a Panoramic Driving Environment (3)
David E. Anderson, Deepta A. Ghate, Sachin Kedar, Matthew Rizzo (University of Nebraska Medical Center) 

Comparison of Wrap Around Screens and HMDs on a Driver’s Response to an Unexpected Pedestrian Crossing Using Simulator Vehicle Parameters (27)
Danielle Filio, Lynn Dony, Diego Gonzalez, Michele Oliver (University of Guelph, Canada)  

2017 Photos 

8th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design

Snowbird
Salt Lake City, UT
June 22-25, 2015

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2015 Keynote Speakers

  • Dr. Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft Research
  • Trent W. Victor, Senior Technical Leader Crash Avoidance, Volvo Cars Safety Centre; Adjunct Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

2015 Proceedings

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2015 Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award Winners

1st place

Analysis of Drivers’ Head and Eye Movement Correspondence: Predicting Drivers’ Glance Location Using Head Rotation Data (31)
Mauricio Munoz (MIT, New England University & University of Augsburg, Germany); Joonbum Lee, Bryan Reimer, Bruce Mehler (MIT AgeLab & New England University); Trent Victor (SAFER Vehicle and Traffic Safety Centre, Chalmers, Sweden)

2nd place

Engaging with Highly Automated Driving: To be or Not to be in the Loop? (29) 
Tyron Louw, Natasha Merat, Hamish Jamson (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Predicting Secondary Task Involvement and Differences in Task Modality Using Field Highway Driving Data (59)
Alina Sinelnikova (MIT AgeLab & New England University Transportation Center and University of Augsburg, Germany), Joonbum Lee, Bryan Reimer, Bruce Mehler, Joseph Coughlin (MIT AgeLab & New England University Transportation Center)

2015 Photos

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7th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design

The Sagamore Resort on Lake George
Bolton Landing, New York
June 17-20, 2013

2013 Sponsors and Exhibitors

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2013 Keynote Speakers 

  • Dr. Adrian K. Lund, President, Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) and the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI)
  • Cliff Nass, Thomas M. Storke Professor at Stanford University

2013 Proceedings

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2013 Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award Winners

Effect of Driving Experience on Change Detection Based on Target Relevance and Size (53)
Alexandra S. Mueller (Western University – Canada), Lana M. Trick (University of Guelph, Canada)

Choking Under Pressure in Older Drivers (66)
Kuan-Hua Chen, Steven W. Anderson, Michelle L. Rusch, Nazan S. Aksan, Jeffrey D. Dawson, Matthew Rizzo (University of Iowa)

3D Spatial Attention Effects are Independent of Projected 2D Size and Location for Older and Younger Drivers (69)
Russell S. Pierce, George J. Andersen (University of California, Riverside)

2013 Photos

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6th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design

Resort at Squaw Creek
Olympic Valley - Lake Tahoe, California
June 27-30, 2011

2011 Sponsors and Exhibitors

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2011 Keynote Speakers 

  • Dr. Donald A. Redelmeier, Canada Research Chair in Medical Decision Sciences; Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto; Director of Clinical Epidemiology at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre; staff physician in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Sunnybrook Hospital; and Senior Scientist at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Studies in Ontario
  • Prof. Charles Spence, Head, Crossmodal Research Laboratory, Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University

2011 Proceedings

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2011 Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award Winners

Age-Related Limits of 3D Spatial Attention in Dual-Task Driving (46)
Russell Pierce, Zheng Bian, & George Andersen, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside 

Long-Term Effects of Hazard Anticipation Training on Novice Drivers Measured on the Open Road (28) 
Thalia Taylor1, Kathleen Masserang1, Anuj Pradhan2, Gautam Divekar1, Siby Samuel1, Jeffrey Muttart1, Alexander Pollatsek1, & Donald Fisher1
1 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
2 National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

2011 FMCSA Commercial Vehicle Operations Student & Young Research Award Winners

Making Auditory Warning Signals Informative: Examining the Acceptance of Auditory Icons as Warning Signals in Trucks 
Johan Fagerlönn, Interactive Institute - Sonic Studio, Sweden

Driver Opinions of Simulator-Based Commercial Driver Training
Justin Morgan, Scott Tidwell, Myra Blanco, Alejandra Medina and Richard Hanowski, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, USA

Effects of Scheduling on Sleep and Performance in Commercial Motorcoach Operations
Lora Wu and Gregory Belenky, Washington State University, USA

Effect of driving breaks and 34-hour restart on motor carrier crash odds
Kun-Feng Wu and Paul Jovanis, Penn State University, USA

2011 Photos

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5th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design

Yellowstone Conference Center
Big Sky, Montana
June 22-25, 2009

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Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award Winners

Multiple-Session Simulator Training for Older Drivers and On-Road Transfer of (31)
Martin Lavallière (Centre de recherche FRSQ du CHA de Québec — Canada), Denis Laurendeau (Université Laval — Canada), Mathieu Tremblay, Martin Simoneau, Normand Teasdale (Centre de recherche FRSQ du CHA de Québec — Canada) 

Driving Assessment and Subsequent Driving Outcome: A Prospective Study of Safe and Unsafe Healthy Driver Groups (60) 
Petra Hoggarth (Van der Veer Institute for Parkinson’s & Brain Research; University of Canterbury — New Zealand), Richard Jones (Van der Veer Institute for Parkinson’s & Brain Research; Christchurch Hospital; University of Otago — New Zealand), Carrie Innes (Van der Veer Institute for Parkinson’s & Brain Research; Christchurch Hospital — New Zealand), John Dalrymple-Alford (Van der Veer Institute for Parkinson’s & Brain Research; University of Canterbury — New Zealand)

Estimating Workload Demands of Turning Left at Intersections of Varying Complexity (61) 
Arne Stinchcombe (University of Ottawa — Canada), Sylvain Gagnon (University of Ottawa; CanDRIVE, Ottawa Health Research Institute — Canada) 

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4th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design

Skamania Lodge
Stevenson, Washington
July 9-12, 2007

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Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award Winners

Paper 90: Examining young novice driver headway choice in a simulated car following task.
Eve Mitsopoulos-Rubens, Thomas Triggs, & Micheal Reagan.
Monash University Accident Research Centre, Clayton, Australia

Paper 86: Can galvanic vestibular simulation reduce simulator adaptation syndrome?
Rebecca J. Reed-Jones, Lana M. Trick, James G. Reed-Jones, & Lori A. Vallis
University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Paper 49: Comparison of driver brake reaction times to multimodal rear-end collision warnings.
Jeffrey Scott & Rob Gray
Dept. of Applied Psychology, Arizona State University and United States Air Force

Paper 81: Perceptual-motor control strategies for left-turn execution.
Rayka Mohebbi & Rob Gray
Dept. of Applied Psychology, Arizona State University

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3rd International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design

Samoset Resort on the Ocean
Rockport, Maine
June 27-30, 2005

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Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award Winners

Bobbie D. Seppelt
Driver Distraction and Reliance: Adaptive Cruise Control in the Context of Sensor Reliability and Algorithm Limits (33) 
Bobbie D. Seppelt, Monica N. Lees, John D. Lee (University of Iowa)

Honorable Mentions:

Amit Paul
Steering Entropy Changes as a Function of Microsleeps (65) 
Amit Paul, Linda Ng Boyle (University of Iowa), Erwin R. Boer (LUEBEC), Jon Tippin, Matthew Rizzo (University of Iowa)

Matthew R.E. Romoser
The Use of a Driving Simulator to Assess Senior Driver Performance: Increasing Situational Awareness Through Post-Drive One-on-One Advisement (67) 
Matthew R.E. Romoser, Donald L. Fisher (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Ronald Mourant (Northeastern University), Jerry Wachtel (The Veridian Group, Inc.), Konstantin Sizov (Drive Square LLC.)

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2nd International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design

Grand Summit Resort
Park City, Utah
July 21-24, 2003

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Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award Winners

Multiple Resource Modeling of Task Interference in Vehicle Control, Hazard Awareness and In-vehicle Task Performance 
William J. Horrey, Christopher D. Wickens (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- USA)

Steering a Driving Simulator Using the Queueing Network-Model Human Processor (QN-MHP) 
Omer Tsimhoni, Yili Liu (University of Michigan -- USA)

Traffic Scene Related Change Blindness in Older Drivers  
Sarah Batchelder, Matthew Rizzo (University of Iowa -- USA), Rick Vanderleest (Digital Artefacts, LLC -- USA), Shaun Vecera (University of Iowa -- USA)

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1st International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training, and Vehicle Design

Silvertree Hotel
Aspen, Colorado
August 14-17, 2001 

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Determinants of Driving After Stroke 
Abiodun Emmanuel Akinwuntan, Hilde Feys, Willy De Weerdt, Jan Pauwels (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven - Belgium), Guido Baten, Emmanuel Strypstein (CARA, Belgian Institute for Road Safety - Belgium)

Acceleration Behavior of Drivers in a Platoon
Ghulam H. Bham, Rahim F. Benekohal (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - USA)

Evaluating the Presence of In-Vehicle Devices on Driver Performance: Methodological Issues
Christian Jerome, H.C. Neil Ganey, Patrick Commarford, Brian Oakley, Mustapha Mouloua, Peter A. Hancock (University of Central Florida - USA