• 1 student to supervise.
• The student worked full-time for 3 months.
• Approximately 1 meeting per month.

Context of the project

To date, technological advances have made it possible to automate vehicles. For example, a level 2 automated car offers partial autonomy, i.e. the system can manage the acceleration, deceleration and steering of a vehicle thanks to the information perceived by various vehicle sensors. However, vehicle automation still causes road accidents during testing. This is why the HumanTech Institute, in collaboration with He-Arc and the University of Freiburg, has launched the “Ad Vitam” project to explore new concepts of Human-Vehicle interaction to maintain driver’s situation awareness and make future driving safer. The goal of the Overlay project is to create is an Android mobile application allowing a driver in an automated car todo a Non-Driving-Related task on a tablet while receiving information about the car’s environement. The goal was to build a first prototype of the application.

Tasks done by the student

• State of the art of possible technologies : split-screen, transparent layout, services, picture in picture, notifications
• Identifying the information that need to be conveyed to the driver
• Design of the data structure format for sending information from the simulator to the tablet : frame in JSON format
• Mock-up of the application design
  • global design
  • modules
  • icons
• Conception of the mobile application : class diagram
• Implementaton of the mobile application in Java (Android Studio)
  • global design
  • resources management : images and audio
  • receiving data from the driving simulator
• Evaluation of the application
  • Functional tests
  • User tests : Evaluation of the efficiency the elements integrated in the scenario, based on user ratings