OpenEnergySim: Conducting behavioral studies in virtual worlds for sustainable transportation

2011 IEEE Forum on Integrated and Sustainable Transportation Systems, FISTS 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 382-387

  Prendinger, Helmut ^a   Nakasone, Arturo ^a   Miska, Mark ^b   Kuwarhara, Masao ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL STUDIES; CAR-FOLLOWING BEHAVIOR; CAR-FOLLOWING MODELS; DRIVER ACCEPTANCE; DRIVING BEHAVIOR; DRIVING SIMULATION; DRIVING SIMULATOR; EMISSION REDUCTION; HUMAN DRIVERS; INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENT; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS; INTERNET TECHNOLOGY; MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION; MULTI-USER; MULTIPLE USER; REAL WORLD DATA; REAL-TIME COLLABORATION; SPACE-BASED; SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3-D) SIMULATION; TRAFFIC ENVIRONMENT; TRAFFIC NETWORKS; VIRTUAL WORLDS; WEB-BASED SURVEYS;

AUTOMOBILE SIMULATORS; CARBON DIOXIDE; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTEGRATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); THREE DIMENSIONAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 80052397173     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FISTS.2011.5973599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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