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A list of selected publications and project reports by members of the IMDC team
MORPH: Mobility | Ownership | Relationship | Personalisation | Hospitality
The MORPH Project report presents possible shared driverless vehicle models, and how human centred design processes can help identify the buy-in point for sharing by showing some adaptive car design concepts designed to be attractive to, and easily adopted by, individual consumers.
MORPH Microsite
The MORPH website is for anyone interested in exploring emerging trends in shared vehicle experiences, future behavioural patterns for shared vehicle drivers and passengers, new types of brand-loyalty factors, new relationships between the physical structures of vehicles, and information services.
AHRC Design Fellows: Challenges of the Future Mobility
The AHRC Design Fellows: challenges of the future mobility report identifies where research communities are located; the challenges they face developing ideas into funded research and forming appropriate consortia; how they reinforce the impact of research in economic, societal and technological transformations; and what are the obstacles and benefits that design-led approaches drive in their research.
Emotional Tech - Mobility Rituals for Real-World Applications
The Emotional Tech project report explores the interactions and experiences of people and vehicles from the perspective of ‘emotions as affective artefacts' which tackles ‘emotion’ as a conduit to help with problem-solving, decision-making and sense-making.
Emotional Tech Microsite
The Emotional Tech website focuses on how mobility-related technologies could be applied to enable emotional transitions from anxiety to relief or assist people’s major life events.
Driverless Futures
GATEway (Greenwich Automated Transport Environment), jointly-funded by government and industry, was a £8m research project that aimed to understand and overcome the technical, legal and social challenges of implementing automated vehicles in an urban environment. The publication Driverless Futures. Design for acceptance and adoption in urban environments, an output of the project, is aimed at a wide range of people and stakeholders who might be interested in the future of driverless vehicles to show how design can be used to increase their acceptance and adoption in urban environments.
Our Future Towns
Our Future Towns is a project developed with people from across the country to reimagine how they can engage with the challenges of community place-making and transport planning. The Our future Towns report examines how to bring people together to talk about the things that matter in their town and to see how we can build on each other’s knowledge as well as the great ideas that are happening across the UK and around the world.
Publications Archive
2023
Diels, C., Dugenetet, P., Brietzke, A., Pham Xuan, R. (2023). Design strategies to alleviate motion sickness in rear seat passengers – a test track study. Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITSC 2023, 24-28 September 2023 Bilbao, Bizkaia, Spain.
Sun, Y., Wang, H., Zhang, Z., Diels, C., Asadipour, A. (2023). RESenv: A realistic earthquake simulation environment based on Unreal Engine. arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.07239
Diels, C., Stylidis, K., Safa, F., Haramoto, H., Shu, Y., Charwick, C., Wu, J., Mausbach, A., Harrow, D. (2023). Designing Perceived Safety in Autonomous Vehicles. Proceedings of the Fourth International Comfort Congress, September 6-7 2023, Amberg, Germany.
Diels, C. , Roe, J., Lee, M., Nah, I., Wu, J., Mausbach, A., Phillips, D., Harrow, D. (2023). Designing Joyful Journeys for Demand Responsive Transport (DRT). Proceedings of the Fourth International Comfort Congress, September 6-7 2023, Amberg, Germany.
Diels, C., Ye, Y., Tarabini, M., Bos, J., Maeda, S. (2023). Standards on standing - the influence of posture on comfort and health effects of whole-body vibration. Proceedings of the Fourth International Comfort Congress, September 6-7 2023, Amberg, Germany.
Dong, J., Nadri, C., Alvarez, I., Diels, C., Lee, M., Li, J., ... & Jeon, M. (2023). “Play Your Anger”: A report on the empathic in-vehicle interface workshop. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (pp. 168-173).
Sun, Y., Zhou, Z., Diels, C., & Asadipour, A. (2023, October). DeepMetricEye: Metric depth estimation in periocular VR imagery. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) (pp. 434-443). IEEE.
Sun, Y., Wang, H., Zhang, Z., Diels, C., & Asadipour, A. (2023). RESenv: A realistic earthquake simulation environment based on Unreal Engine. IMET 2023.
Stylidis, K., Quattelbaum, B., Diels, C., Braun, A., Konrad, F., Söderberg, R. (2023). Perceived Comfort of Car Seats: A Research Methodology to Visual Cues Evaluation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Research into Design, ICORD 2023: Design in the Era of Industry 4.0, Volume 3 pp 243–256.
2022
Bos, J.E., Diels, C., Souman, J.L. (2022). Beyond seasickness: a motivated call for a new motion sickness standard across motion environments. Vibration, Volume 5, Issue 4, 755-769
Severs, R., Wu, J., Diels, C., Harrow, D., Singleton, J., Winsor, R. (2022). Imagining an inclusive future for shared autonomous vehicle interiors: A participatory design workshop study. AutomotiveUI ’22: Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, September 2022 Pages 73–78, Seoul, South Korea.
Severs, R., Wu, J., Diels, C., Harrow, D., Winsor, R. (2022). Inclusive Shared Autonomous. 11th Inclusive Design Conference Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design Conference Proceedings, p 170-187.
Bos, J.E., Diels, C., Souman, J.L. (2022). What we don’t know (yet) about (self-driving) carsickness. DSC 2022 EUROPE VR Driving Simulation Conference & Exhibition, 14-16 Sept, Strasbourg, France.
Diels, C., Stylidis, K., Mausbach, A.M., Harrow, D. (2022). Shaping autonomous vehicles: Towards a taxonomy of design features instilling a sense of safety. In: Krömker H. (eds) HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Cham.
Diels, C., Ye, Y., Bos, J.E., Maeda, S. (2022). Motion Sickness in Automated Vehicles: Principal Research Questions and the Need for Common Protocols. SAE International Journal of Connected and Automated Vehicles 5(2). DOI: 10.4271/12-05-02-0011
Severs, R., Wu, J., Diels, C., Harrow, D., Uhlarik, M. (2022). Side-stepping future transport exclusion via an expanded inclusive design approach. Proceedings of the ninth Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research (IASDR ’21), 5-9 December 2021, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
2021
Diels, C., Bos, J.E. (2021). Great Expectations: On the Design of Predictive Motion Cues to Alleviate Carsickness. In: Krömker H. (eds) HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems. HCII 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12791. Springer, Cham.
Erol, T., Diels, C., Shippen, J., Richards, D. (2021). Which design features differentiate expectations in automotive seating comfort? A mixed methods approach. Comfort Congress, 2-3 September 2021, Online conference.
Harrow, H. & Wu, J. (2021) Chapter 8: Designing for a future with driverless vehicles – acceptance and adoption. Cities for Driverless Vehicles – Planning the future built environment with shared mobility, pp183-217. ICE Publishing. London.
Mausbach, A.G., Diels, C., Evans, S., Harrow, D., Safa, F. and Quinlan, D. (2021). “Ecofitting: design directions upgrading cars to zero emissions”. In 2021 Sixteenth International Conference on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable Energies (EVER) Monte-Carlo, Monaco, 2021 (pp. 1-7). IEEE. DOI: 10.1109/EVER52347.2021.9456656
Phillips, D. (2021). Our future town: changing hearts and minds policy research.
Severs, R., Wu, J., Diels, C., Harrow, D., Uhlarik, M. (2021) Side-stepping future transport exclusion via an expanded inclusive design approach. Proceedings of IASDR 2021, With Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
2020
Cieslak, M., Kanarachos, S., Blundell, M., Diels, C., Burnett, M., Baxendale, A. (2020). Accurate ride comfort estimation combining accelerometer measurements, anthropometric data and neural networks, Neural Computing and Applications 32 (12), 8747-8762.
Kuiper, O. X., Bos, J. E., Diels, C., & Schmidt, E. A. (2020). Knowing what’s coming: Anticipatory audio cues can mitigate motion sickness. Applied Ergonomics, 85, 1-6.
Mausbach, A.G., Safa, F., Harrow, D., Diels, C. (2020). Ecofitting Circular Economy: An alternative approach to market, consumption, and design towards zero emissions
2020 Fifteenth International Conference on Ecological Vehicles and Renewable.
Salter, S., Diels, C., Herriotts, P., Kanarachos, S., Thake, D. (2020). Model to predict motion sickness within autonomous vehicles. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, 234(5), 1330-1345
Schmidt, E. A., Kuiper, O. X., Wolter, S., Diels, C., & Bos, J. E. (2020). An international survey on the incidence and modulating factors of carsickness. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 71, 76–87.
2019
Cieslak, M., Kanarachos, S., Diels, C., Blundell, M., Brunett, M., Baxendale, A. (2019). Accurate ride comfort estimation combining accelerometer measurements, anthropometric data and neural networks. Neural Computing and Applications. Neural Computing and Applications, 1-16.
Erol, T., Diels, C., Shippen, J., Richards, D. (2019). The Visual Categorization of Production Automotive Seats on Descriptors of Comfort by End Users. Proceedings of the 2nd International Comfort Congress, Delft, Netherlands.
Kuiper, O.X., Bos, J.E., Diels, C. (2019). Vection does not necessitate visually induced motion sickness. Displays, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.displa.2018.10.001.
Kuiper, O.X., Bos, J.E., Diels, C., Cammaerts, K. (2019). Moving base driving simulators’ potential for carsickness research. Applied ergonomics, 81:102889.
Kuiper, O.X., Bos, J.E., Schmidt, E.A., Diels, C., Wolter, S. (2019). Knowing What’s Coming: Unpredictable Motion Causes More Motion Sickness. Human Factors, 0018720819876139.
Payre, W., Diels, C. (2019). Designing in-vehicle signs for connected vehicle features: Does appropriateness guarantee comprehension? Applied Ergonomics, 80, 102-110,
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2019.05.006.
Salter, S., Diels, C., Kanarachos, S., Thake, D., Herriotts, P., Depireux, D.A. (2019) Increased bone conducted vibration reduces motion sickness in automated vehicles. International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics, 6(4), 299-318.
Salter, S., Diels, C., Herriotts, P., Kanarachos, S., Thake, D. (2019). Motion Sickness in Automated Vehicles with Forward and Rearward Facing Seating Orientations. Applied Ergonomics, 78, 54-61.
Salter, S., Diels, C., Herriotts, P., Kanarachos, S., Thake, D. (2019). Physiological Indicators for Motion Sickness and Ride Comfort. Conference proceedings of the Vehicle Dynamics Conference (VDC2019), March 19th, Cambridge University.
Salter, S., Thake, D., Kanarachos, S., Diels, C. (2019). Motion Sickness Prediction Device for Automated Vehicles. International Journal of Mechanical and Production Engineering, 7(2), 68-74.
2018
Erol, T., Diels, C., Shippen, J., Richards, D. (2018). Dimensions of holistic automotive seat comfort experience: a card sorting approach, Proceedings of the International meeting Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, October 1–5, 2018, Philadelphia, US.
Kanarachos, S., Haas, O. Diels, C. (2018). Driver behaviour modelling using smartphone cameras. The Midlands Intelligent Mobility Conference 2018, Nottingham, United Kingdom, 24/01/18.
Sanjaya, K.H., Sya’Bana, K., Mustaqim, Y., Hutchinson, S., Diels, C. (2018). Preliminary investigation of sleep-related driving fatigue experiment in Indonesia – Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power, and Vehicular Technology, 9(1), 8-16.
Wasser, J., Diels, C., Baxendale, A., Tovey, M., (2018). Ergonomic evaluation of a driverless pod design, Proceedings of the International meeting Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), October 1–5, 2018, Philadelphia, US.
2017
Andreas Löcken , Shadan Sadeghian Borojeni, Heiko Müller, Thomas M. Gable, Stefano Triberti, Cyriel Diels, Christiane Glatz, Ignacio Alvarez, Lewis Chuang, Susanne Boll (2017). Towards Adaptive Ambient In-Vehicle Displays and Interactions: Insights and Design Guidelines from the 2015 AutomotiveUI Dedicated Workshop. In: Automotive User Interfaces: Creating Interactive Experiences in the Car. Editors: Gerrit Meixner, Christian Müller. Springer Verlag.
Diels, C., Erol, T., Kukova, M., Wasser, J., Cieslak, M., Payre, W., Miglani, A., Mansfield, N., Hodder, S., Bos, J. (2017). Designing for Comfort in Shared and Automated Vehicles (SAV): a Conceptual Framework. Proceedings of the 1st International Comfort Congress (ICC), 7-8 June 2017, Salerno, Italy.
Diels, C. Thompson, S., 2017. Information expectations in highly and fully automated vehicles. 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2017), 17-21 July, Los Angeles, CA, US.
Kuiper, O.X., Bos, J.E., Diels, C. (2017). Looking forward: In-vehicle auxiliary display positioning affects carsickness. Applied Ergonomics, Volume 68, April 2018, Pages 169–175. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2017.11.002.
Payre, W., Diels, C., 2017. Human-Machine Interface Design Development for Connected and Cooperative Ve-hicle Features. 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2017), 17-21 July, Los Angeles, CA, US.
Wasser, J., Diels, C., Baxendale, A., Tovey, M., 2017. Driverless Pods: from Technology Demonstrators to De-sirable Mobility Solutions. 8th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2017), 17-21 July, Los Angeles, CA, US.
