15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
HUMAN VEHICLE INTERACTION FOR ELDERLY DRIVERS: THE MYTH AND THE CHALLENGE
Dr. Evangelos Bekiaris*
Mr. Guido Baten**
* Centre for Research and Technology Hellas / Hellenic Institute of Transport
6th km. Charilaou-Thermi road, 57001 Thermi, Greece, abek@certh.gr
** BIVV/CARA, Haachtsesteenweg 1405, 1130 Brussels, Belgium, Guido.Baten@bivv.be

This paper analyses the actual problems of elderly drivers in coping with certain driving tasks (i.e. changing lanes, merging or leaving from a parking position) from a structured state of the art and accident analysis and their impacts to the relevant design of telematic and other vehicle aids HMI. This work is part of AGILE project, co-funded by the Quality of Life programme of the European Commission, which aims at developing a better driving ability assessment and support framework for elderly drivers.
Keywords: End users, Drivers, Evaluation, Information systems, Human Machine interface.

E-mail: abek@certh.gr
Session slot T-Th-M20: Driver assistance systems for automotive applications/Area code 1e : Components and Instruments