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MEDIATOR behind the scenes: the decision logic

08 October 2022

MEDIATOR is developing a system that mediates between human drivers and vehicle automation to ensure safe, real-time switching between the two, based on who is fittest to drive and drivers’ preference. The Mediator system exists of four main components that have been developed that are currently being tested. Previously, we described the driver state component, the automation state component, and …

Vehicle automation as active team partner

15 September 2022

Earlier this week Dr. Matthias Beggiato presented results from the Mediator study done in WP3 by Chemnitz University of Technology (Germany) at the 52nd Congress of the German Psychological Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs) in Hildesheim ( https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/dgps2022/). About 50 attendees attended this session, mainly psychologists. His session topic was on „smooth …

General Assembly and Periodic Review meeting

09 July 2022

On 14 and 15 June the MEDIATOR consortium gathered in Tollered (Sweden) for the 7th General Assembly and the periodic review meeting, hosted by Veoneer. It was wonderful being together after such a long time and see how our efforts are coming together during the presentations and demonstrations of the vehicle prototypes. We were given the opportunity to welcome our project manager Anca Pasca …

Liaison meeting

04 June 2022

MEDIATOR liaised with three related Horizon2020 projects: Drive2theFuture, HADRIAN, and Trustonomy. The projects want to bring their recommendations and suggestions to the attention of stakeholders after years of research. For this reason they collectively submitted a proposal for the invited sessions at TRA 2022, taking place in Lisbon. An exchange between stakeholders and the main researchers …

First MEDIATOR on-road study in Italy

24 May 2022

The first on-road test of the Mediator system is about to start in Italy, conducted by CRF in close collaboration with FCA (Stellantis) and Capgemini. A group of naive drivers will be exposed to the system to assess the acceptance of and trust in such a system and to test the proposed HMI solutions in practice. To this end, a prototype of the MEDIATOR HMI has been built into a test vehicle. The …

MEDIATOR behind the scenes: the Human Machine Interface

24 May 2022

MEDIATOR is developing a system that mediates between human drivers and vehicle automation to ensure safe, real-time switching between the two, based on who is fittest to drive and a driver’s preference. Currently, the prototypes of the four main Mediator system components and their integration are getting shape. Previously, we described the driver state component and the automation state …