• 2 students to supervise.
• The students worked few hours a week for 10 months.
• Supporting the student for designing the experiment, prepare the material for data collection, collecting and analyzing the data.
• Communication in English with the students.
• Study done in 2 languages : French and German.

Context of the project

The goal of this project is to investigate the effect of sleep-deprivation and driving environment on situation awareness, trust and physiological state of drivers. The data were collected on a fixed-based driving simulator where participants had to drive in conditional automation for 50 minutes. Half of them were sleep-deprived the night before the experiment (20% less compared to theirs sleep habits). Besides, all participants experienced two different diving scenarios : 1 in the counstryside and 1 in the city. They had to react accordingly to 2 Takeover Requests (TORs), one in each scenario

Tasks done by the students

• Design of the experiment (procedure and choice of task and measures)
• Preparation of the material for user testing : questionnaires, instructions, audio recorder
• User testing : data collection of 90 participants
  • Socio-demographic questions
  • Physiological signals : ECG, EDA and Respiration
  • Alertness level : Karolinska Sleepiness Scale
  • Performance of vigilence task
  • Situation Awareness Rating Technique (SART)
  • Situational Trust (STS-AD)
  • Affective State (AniSAM)
  • User Experience (UEQ-S)
• Data analysis
• Realization of the bachelor thesis
• Optional : Creation of a poster summarizing the work done