Grand Theft Auto-Based Cycling Simulator for Cognitive Enhancement Technologies in Dangerous Traffic Situations
- While developing traffic-based cognitive enhancement technology (CET), such as bike accident prevention systems, it can be challenging to test and evaluate them properly. After all, the real-world scenario could endanger the subjects’ health and safety. Therefore, a simulator is needed, preferably one that is realistic yet low cost. This paper introduces a way to use the video game Grand Theft Auto V (GTA V) and its sophisticated traffic system as a base to create such a simulator, allowing for the safe and realistic testing of dangerous traffic situations involving cyclists, cars, and trucks. The open world of GTA V, which can be explored on foot and via various vehicles, serves as an immersive stand-in for the real world. Custom modification scripts of the game give the researchers control over the experiment scenario and the output data to be evaluated. An off-the-shelf bicycle equipped with three sensors serves as a realistic input device for the subject’s movement direction and speed. The simulator was used to test two early-stage CET concepts enabling cyclists to sense dangerous traffic situations, such as trucks approaching from behind the cyclist. Thus, this paper also presents the user evaluation of the cycling simulator and the CET used by the subjects to sense dangerous traffic situations. With the knowledge of the first iteration of the user-centered design (UCD) process, this paper concludes by naming improvements for the cycling simulator and discussing further research directions for CET that enable users to sense dangerous situations better.
Author: | Julius SchöningORCiD, Jan KettlerORCiD, Milena I. JägerORCiD, Artur GuniaORCiD |
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Title (English): | Grand Theft Auto-Based Cycling Simulator for Cognitive Enhancement Technologies in Dangerous Traffic Situations |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:959-opus-39386 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3390/s23073672 |
ISSN: | 1424-8220 |
Parent Title (English): | Sensors |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2023 |
Release Date: | 2023/04/11 |
Tag: | Accident prevention; Cognitive enhancement technologies; Cycling simulator; Game engine; Realistic traffic simulation |
Volume: | 23 |
Issue: | 7 |
Page Number: | 20 |
Note: | This research was funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) no. 57602711 and the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) no. PSP:K/PBI/000170 grant for Project-Related Personal Exchange (PPP). In addition, the APC was partially funded by the Open Access Publishing Fund of Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences. Data Availability Statement Source code and additional information are contained within the article or can be found in the file archive at https://www.hs-osnabrueck.de/prof-dr-julius-schoening/sim2ride (accessed on 7 February 2023). |
Faculties: | Fakultät IuI |
DDC classes: | 000 Allgemeines, Informatik, Informationswissenschaft / 004 Informatik |
Review Status: | Veröffentlichte Fassung/Verlagsversion |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |