1. Conception de systèmes d’assistance au conducteur : comment prendre en compte le caractère complexe, dynamique et situé de la conduite automobile ?
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Thérèse Villame
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car driving ,driving support systems ,adaptive cruise control ,activity analysis ,ethnographic activity analysis ,situated cognition ,Psychology ,BF1-990 ,Social Sciences - Abstract
Driving support systems have emerged for some years, some of them acting instead of the driver – even partially. They contribute to change drivers’ interactions with their vehicle and with the environment also. The design of driving support systems, in order to improve these interactions and fit the drivers’ needs, requires an accurate knowledge about driving activity and about the diversity of driving situations also. Studying car driving activity is highly-dependent on the hypotheses we have on general human cognition, and especially on the relations between perception, action and situation, which are basic dimensions for this dynamic, complex and situated activity. From this point of view, a bundle of hypotheses comes into view from different recent studies, which seems especially relevant to study the car drivers’ activity. These hypotheses enable us to have a better understanding of some specific phenomena we can notice when observing car driving. The aim of this paper is to discuss the interest of this new approach of the human cognition, named « Situated cognition », as an alternative to the computionnal approach. It is also to show how conceptual and methodological evolutions may lead to an evolution of the design and the assessment of interactive driving support systems. In this view, we present here how we concretely deal with the « Situated cognition » hypotheses to design our studies of driving activity, through some examples taken among those we have carried out specifically in relation with the development of a system devoted to assist the driver in regulating speeds and distances with vehicles in front of him/her. In this illustrative approach, we underline how « Situated cognition » framework guides the analytic questions of our studies and the choice of the subsequent study situations also, as well as the methodological framework for collecting and analysing the data on car driving activity.
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- 2004
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