News & Events

Highlights MEDIATOR Scientific Advisory Board Meeting

22 December 2020

On 8th of December 2020 the second meeting with the Scientific Advisory board took place online. Five international scientific experts joined the meeting: Linda Boyle from the University of Washington (USA), Carol Flannagan from the University of Michigan (USA), John D. Lee from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), Satoshi Kitazaki from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science …

Japanese-German Research Collaboration on CAD: Human Factors

08 December 2020

On the 3rd of December the MEDIATOR project was presented by Dr. Matthias Beggiato (TUC) during a webinar of the Japanese-German Research Collaboration on Human Factors in Connected and Automated Driving (CADJapanGermany: HF). His presentation “Facial Expressions as Indicator for Discomfort in Automated Driving” included results of face tracking studies. More than 45 participants joined the …

Highlights from the Industrial Advisory Board meeting

27 November 2020

On the 24th of November a second productive meeting with our Industrial Advisory Board took place. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions this meeting was held online. Three international industry experts joined the meeting: Frederik Naujoks from BMW (Germany), Richard Schram from EURO NCAP (Belgium) and Jean-Marc Tissot from Valeo (France). First the MEDIATOR Executive Board presented the progress of …

Partner in the spotlight: TUC

23 November 2020

Chemnitz University of Technology (TUC) is involved in the MEDIATOR project with the Research Group of Cognitive and Engineering Psychology led by Prof. Dr. Josef Krems and with the Professorship of Communications Engineering led by Prof. Dr. Klaus Mößner. The Research Group of Cognitive and Engineering Psychology deals especially with the motivational aspects for the take-over and hand-over …

MEDIATOR behind the scenes: use cases

20 October 2020

The Mediator system generally focusses on all driving scenarios with vehicles up to SAE level 5 automation. To develop and evaluate the Mediator system within the MEDIATOR project however, this scope will need to be reduced. For this purpose, a set of use cases was defined in the beginning of the project. During the first advisory board meeting several board members indicated that the MEDIATOR …

Towards full vehicle automation (TRA2020)

05 March 2020

The MEDIATOR project will contribute to the 8th Transport Research Arena (TRA2020, April 27-30, Helsinki) through the submission and presentation of a paper on the mediator system for partly automated vehicles. The title of this paper (written by Nicole van Nes, Ingrid van Schagen, Diane Cleij, Michiel Christoph, Bram Bakker) is: ‘Towards full vehicle automation: mediating between human and …