Car racing in a simulator: Validation and assessment of brake pedal stiffness

Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-61

  de Groot, S ^a   De Winter, J C F ^a   Mulder, M ^b   Wieringa, P A ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAKE PEDALS; CAR SIMULATOR; DRIVER ASSESSMENT; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HUMAN MACHINE INTERFACE; HUMAN-IN-THE-LOOP; PEDAL FORCES; REAL-WORLD; REAL-WORLD TESTS; TRAIN DRIVERS; TRAINING AND TESTING; VALIDATION STUDY;

AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; BRAKES; DRIVER TRAINING; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; REAL VARIABLES; SIMULATORS; STIFFNESS;

RACING AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 79955680871     PISSN: 10547460     EISSN: 15313263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/pres_a_00033     Document Type: Article

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