RESEARCH APPLICATIONS
PAPER SESSION

Session Chair
Omar Ahmad
Director of Operations
National Advanced Driving Simulator
The University of Iowa
Tel: 319-335-4788
Email: omar-ahmad@uiowa.edu

PAPERS
POTENTIAL SUBJECT AREAS
for the
IMAGE CONFERENCE

Expand the relevance and applicability of simulators beyond human factors research & training.

Multi-operator & multi-simulator cooperative simulation environments across local & wide area networks.

Identify & minimize the causes of simulator sickness.

Advancing the science of simulation.

Automotive Simulation Applications
- Creating photorealistic virtual driving environments with underlying correlated logical databases
- Automating the process of generating visual databases from public sources of data (virtually drive anywhere in the world)
- Methods & tools for authoring dynamic, yet controllable, scenarios & events (rich life-like driving environments with vehicles, pedestrians, bicycles, etc)
- Modelling the behavior & movement of semi & fully autonomous vehicles
  - vehicle systems (dynamics, tires)
  - sensors (radar, imaging systems)
  - communications (connected vehicles, V2V, V2I)
  - behavior & logic control
  - interfaces to humans
- Expand the relevance and applicability of simulators beyond human factors research & training
- Integration with 3rd party tools (traffic flow, human modeling, etc)
- Multi-operator & multi-simulator cooperative simulation environments across local & wide area networks
MISSION
This session’s goal is to advance knowledge and research on the application of simulators. Topics may include (but are not limited to) training, prototyping/design, human behavior/performance assessment, and assessment of devices. Everyone with an interest in these issues is welcome to join in and participate. If you have something to contribute to the this community, or if you just want to learn more about it, just drop an email to the Session Chair at the above listed address.

Previous Presenters at this Session have include representatives of:
Major automobile manufacturers (worldwide)
Military users of ground vehicles
Simulator manufacturers
Image generator and work station manufacturers
Display system vendors
Simulator system integrators
Database modelers
Software developers
Vehicle Dynamicists
Human Factors Researchers
University faculty
Equipment trainers

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