Biomechanical and Psychophysical Evaluation of Operating Loads in Vehicular Driving

The present paper proposes an evaluation method of operation loads in vehicular driving, such as the joint-load, the seat pressure, and the perceiving force, based on biomechanical and psychophysical evidences to assist the human-centered design of driving interfaces. The prototype simulator is developed by means of a big experimental data of human motor properties and force-perception properties related with driving operations. The usefulness of the proposed methodology is then demonstrated through a set of simulation experiments in the case of the curve traveling situation.