Human Factors

The Human Factors pack is designed for engineers willing to evaluate the driver’s performance and behavior as well as to carry out studies on fatigue, drowsiness, vigilance, effects of drugs, and driving under the influence.

DISCOVER Human Factors

Your ultimate toolkit for measuring and analyzing driver behavior

With its comprehensive set of tools and interfaces, this pack supports development across the entire V‑Cycle. It accelerates decision‑making during design by enabling rapid evaluation of HMI concepts, and simplifies verification by ensuring results can be efficiently validated against specifications. The Human Factors Pack helps teams save time and focus on their core expertise

Benefits

Native Support and Openness

Enhanced synchronization

Efficient assistance

Features

All the necessary tools and interfaces to measure and analyze driver behavior

Head and eye movements, breathing, heart rate, physiological measurements, video recordings, and connection to virtual reality systems

More details

Eye Tracker

Interface and synchronization between eye tracking systems and SCANeR.

Characteristics

Time synchronization and data recording
Realtime monitoring
Eye tracker referential tuning
Gaze information in 3D and screen referential
Transport delay from communication to record: less than 20ms
Compatible with ROI (region of interest) information from Eye tracking product
Ability to identify precisely what the driver is looking at (the road ahead, a particular traffic light, the speedometer, any of the mirrors or an item of in vehicle equipment, etc.)
Support for SCANeR scripting based on gaze events, enabling interactive scenarios (pedestrian cross the road when the driver is looking at the in-vehicle communication system, etc.)
Compatibility with SCANeR VIDEO to record the Eye tracking stream (if available)
Compatibility with the optional SCANeR Head tracker package if the eye tracker device does not embed its own (NAC, Pertech, etc.)

Supported Hardware

Smarteye pro from 4.5 to 8.2.2
SMI from 1.5 to 2.0
Communication UDP

Note: If your hardware is not on the list above, please do not hesitate to contact our service for further information, it may have been added recently following an evolution. SCANeR provides open interfaces and a Studio Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing you to integrate and synchronize virtually any external device. User can also contact the support team.

Head Tracker

Interface and synchronization between position-tracking devices and SCANeR.

Supported Hardware

Polhemus
Intersense Initial Cube 2
LaserBird
Art
EMagin Z800
TrackIR
Oculus
OptiTrack (devices compatible with NatNet 3.0 SDK)

Note: If your hardware is not on the list above, please do not hesitate to contact our service for further information, it may have been added recently following an evolution. SCANeR provides open interfaces and a Studio Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing you to integrate and synchronize virtually any external device. User can also contact the support team.

Head Mounted Display (HMD)

Interface and synchronization of an HMD device, like HTC Vive and Varjo, with SCANeR.

Supported Hardware

Varjo XR3

Note: If your hardware is not on the list above, please do not hesitate to contact our service for further information, it may have been added recently following an evolution. SCANeR provides open interfaces and a Studio Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing you to integrate and synchronize virtually any external device. User can also contact the support team.

Prerequisites

For the HTC Vive a Steam account is required.

Physiological

Interface and synchronization between electrophysiological devices and SCANeR.

Characteristics

Convert dynamically data channels to SCANeR export channels
Mapping configuration file (data channel/SCANeR export channels)
Create SCANeR script reacting to physiological data.
Record physiological AcqKnowledge output data channels, including processed channels, in sync with other SCANeR records

Supported Hardware

Biopac AcqKnowledge 4.0 (or higher) with Network Data Transfer option activated.
Ant devices with an ANT+ Dongle.

Note: If your hardware is not on the list above, please do not hesitate to contact our service for further information, it may have been added recently following an evolution. SCANeR provides open interfaces and a Studio Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing you to integrate and synchronize virtually any external device. User can also contact the support team.

Video

This feature allows to record video stream coming from video cameras. The video stream records are synchronized with all SCANeR studio simulation data.

Characteristics

Monitoring: Display a real-time surveillance of the driver and the simulator (optical sensors as camera or near-infra-red camera)
Video recording: Record movie in a separated stream.
- Recorded videos can be played back in the SCANeR Analysing Tool, synchronized with SCANeR studio simulation time

Screen Recorder

Capture full screen, or part of screen, or windows
Capture also audio on default sound card
Receive the AV stream (RTSP protocol) over the network
Record the AV stream synchronized with SCANeR simulation time
Video recordings can be played back using SCANeR AnalysingTool, synchronized with SCANeR studio simulation time

Supported Video Streams

DirectX camera.
HTTP and/or RTSP camera
Black magic acquisition board
Screen and audio captures (with the optional ScreenRecorder feature)

Note: If your hardware is not on the list above, please do not hesitate to contact our service for further information, it may have been added recently following an evolution. SCANeR provides open interfaces and a Studio Software Development Kit (SDK), allowing you to integrate and synchronize virtually any external device. User can also contact the support team.

Full set of functions for Augmented Reality applications

To merge real images from a camera with synthetic images

More details

A pair of stereo cameras mounted on a binocular head-mounted display allows the user to see live images from the real world combined with the SCANeR’s 3D visual rendering. This feature includes dedicated tools to set-up the complete workflow, from stereo camera calibration to the final rendering display.

Characteristics

Stereo camera calibration tool for accurate real-world and virtuel alignment
Dynamic display of an external HMI model through real-time video streaming
Chroma key support for precise visual integration between real and virtual elements

Uses Cases

Infrastructure and transport studies.

The goal of these studies is to measure the comprehensiveness of the road infrastructure. The Human Factors Pack will allow you to record and analyze through your own criteria the reaction of the driver to different road infrastructures.

Ergonomics & Human-Machine Interface (HMI)

In the field of ergonomics and HMI, sensors are often used to monitor the movements of test subjects’ heads, eyes, and fingers. The Human factors pack allows simulation and driver’s actions to be meticulously recorded and synchronized. When analyzing drivers under stress conditions, previous data can be complemented with physiological measurements.

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