CALL FOR PAPERS
Driving Simulation Conference
North America 2005
 
CATSS/ UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA, ORLANDO, FL
NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 2, 2005
 
The goal of this conference is to bring together users, researchers and developers of real-time, human-in-the-loop simulators and facilitate an open interchange of ideas, research results, success stories, user expectations and recent technical developments in the field of transportation simulation. Papers will be peer reviewed and published in CD-ROM proceedings.
   
Areas of Interest Conference Steering Committee
  • Validation of transportation simulators
  • Engineering validation of simulator subsystems
  • User behavior level validation
  • Validating cost-benefit goals
  • Transportation simulator research results
  • Using accident or other data in simulator research
  • Controlling simulator artifacts
  • Experiences in using simulators for training
  • Development of efficient participant handling procedures, including process for handling data and pre/post-questionnaires
  • Simulator qualification and techniques for qualifying simulator subsystems
  • Data reduction software and technique, specifically attempts at standardizing reduction techniques and measures
  • Performance assessment
  • Scenario control and generation techniques
  • Synthetic environment modeling
  • Vehicle dynamics
  • ITS-related research activities
  • Traffic engineering applications of simulators
  • Using simulators in vehicle design
Conference Co-Chairs:
Committee:
   
Important Dates Abstract Information
  • February 18, 2005: Abstracts due
  • March 31, 2005: Abstracts acceptance notification
  • July 10, 2005: Papers due
  • August 31, 2005: Paper acceptance notification
  • October 7, 2005: Final papers due
 Abstracts can be sent to papers@dsc-na.org. More information about abstract and paper submittals can be found at: http://www.dsc-na.org. We invite session organizers to submit an abstract for their session and a tentative list of presenters.
   
Sponsored by:
CATSS, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Federal Highway Administration, Ford Motor Company, the University of Iowa, and the National Advanced Driving Simulator
   
Co-sponsored by:
Transportation Research Board Committee on Simulation and Measurement of Vehicle
and Operator Performance (A3B06)
   
For additional information, please see the conference web site at www.dsc-na.org
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