Projects

Tackling important complex socio-technical issues in today’s mobility and healthcare landscapes. We focus on the relationships between People and Automated Systems.

The Contract

Human-Robot Negotiation For Co-piloting Systems

A living negotiation of the roles and responsibilities of vehicle co-pilots (People + Automated Driving System). It rethinks the transitional space of semi-autonomy as working together.

PI – Don Norman
Project Head – Colleen Emmenegger
Funded by – Ford University Research Program

UnBiased

Case Study Coming Soon

Using Social Signal Processing to understand and detect implicit bias in physician-patient interactions in real-time.

PI – Andrea Hartzler and Nadir Weibel
Head of SPP Data Coding – Colleen Emmenegger
Funded by – National Library of Medicine

Smart Installation GIS-Based Mobility Map

Case Study Coming Soon

Developing a multi-layered interactive Mobility Map for the MCAS Miramar Installation using the Geographical Information System, ArcGIS platform by Esri.

PI – Colleen Emmenegger
Funded by – US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research and Development Center

Multiple Road-User Roles

Understanding how people having different modes of transportation share the road, using a fixed-base simulator and an eyetracker.

PI – Linda Hill, Ben Bergen
Senior Researcher – Colleen Emmenegger
Funded by – University of California Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS)

Autonomous Shuttles

Case Study Coming Soon

Description coming soon.

PI – Coming soon.
Funded by – Coming soon.

Research Operations

Improving how senior researchers and students collect, manage, and retrieve research data for an optimized project workflow.

Funding and Support

Current research is funded by the Berkeley Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), Ford Motor Company, the US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineering Research & Development Center (ERDC), the National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, and the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWIC). Additional funding for previous projects was provided by Nissan, Hyundai Motor Company, the Toyota Motor Company, and Dexcom.