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| SPECIAL ISSUE of Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments |
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| Virtual and Augmented Reality for |
| Autonomous Driving and Intelligent Vehicles |
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| Submission deadline: November 6, 2017 (extended) |
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---------------------| SCOPE OF THE SPECIAL ISSUE |---------------------
It is forecasted that augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR)
automotive applications will increase road safety, bring intuitive
activities to driving, and finally enhance driving experience. AR/VR
technology may also help on the transition towards automated driving.
AR head-up-displays (HUDs) may soon overlay 3D navigation instructions
onto road geometry and moving obstacles like vulnerable road users
(pedestrians, bikers, wheel-chair users) and other vehicles may be
highlighted to calm down the driver-passenger and enhance trust in
their vehicle's automated operation as the vehicle proves its awareness
of its surroundings. Virtual reality windshields may allow for dynamic
reconfiguration of multi-lane roads based on demand and will, in the
long term, remove road signs, traffic lights, road paintings, etc. from
the streets. However, many technological challenges need to be
addressed before AR/VR applications will hit the mainstream market.
These include how to capture and interpret road geometry through
computing intensive sensor fusion, precise vehicle positioning,
compensation for vibrations, delays, and jitter, laser projection,
driver monitoring via inward facing cameras and designing sophisticated
algorithms to generate precise augmentation content in the viewing
field of the driver, etc.
-------------------------| TOPICS OF INTEREST |-------------------------
The central objective of this special issue is to provoke an active
debate on potential and constraints, impact, role, and adequacy of
using augmented and virtual reality technology in driving applications.
We welcome papers that treat with automotive-themed topics addressing
challenges such as how to improve driver-vehicle interaction or driving
experience or what are technical difficulties and unresolved problems
limiting a broader deployment in the near future.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Responsive, adaptive and evolvable behaviors in immersive virtual
environments that deal with driver-vehicle interaction in the interior
or vehicle-pedestrian interaction in the exterior.
* Multiuser virtual environments.
* Mixed reality and the experience of real and virtual environments.
* Tools, techniques, frameworks and methodologies.
* Case studies of application of augmented or virtual reality in the
automotive domain.
* Education in the automotive field, e.g., driver training, using AR/VR
technology.
* Evaluation and validation methodologies for the impact of AR/VR.
* Applications/solutions that deal with cognitive overload, distraction,
inattentional blindness, simulation sickness.
* Studies reporting the benefit of AR/VR technology towards attention
(span), etc.
* Risk assessment of the use of augmented/virtual reality technology for
driving and strategies to reduce its risk.
* Social capabilities of AR/VR technology in automotive environments.
* In- and inter-vehicle gaming applications.
-----------------------------| SUBMISSIONS |----------------------------
Papers will be selected based on scientific rigor, originality,
novelty, and presentation quality. By submitting a paper to this
special issue, the authors guarantee that their paper is not currently
submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should
conform to the recently updated journal submission guidelines available
at <http://www.mitpressjournals.org/page/sub/pres>. Please note that
audio and video files can be hosted as supplementary online material
accompanying published articles.
For more information about multimedia file formats and submission guide-
lines, please contact <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> or one of the guest editors.
------------------------------| SCHEDULE |------------------------------
* Manuscript submission deadline: November 6, 2017
* Final revisions: April 15, 2018
* Planned publication: PRESENCE 27-3 (late 2018)
----------------------------| GUEST EDITORS |---------------------------
Andreas Riener
Center of Automotive Research on Integrated Safety Systems and
Measurement Area (CARISSMA) and Prof. for Human-Machine Interface and
Virtual Reality, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI), Germany
Joseph L. Gabbard
Director COGENT Lab and Assoc. Prof. of Human Factors Virginia Tech,
Blacksburg, Virginia, US
Mohan M. Trivedi
Distinguished Professor Jacobs School of Engineering; Director LISA: Lab
for Intelligent and Safe Automobiles, University of California at San
Diego, La Jolla, USA
------------------------------| CONTACT |-------------------------------
Please feel free to contact the organizers at any time.
Andreas Riener, Prof. for Human-Machine Interface and Virtual Reality,
Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI), Germany.
Phone: +49 (0) 841 / 9348-2833
Email: <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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