Exploring novel auditory displays for supporting accelerated skills acquisition and enhanced performance in motorsport
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Powell, Nicholas
Lumsden, Jo
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This paper explores the design, development and evaluation
of a novel real-time auditory display system for accelerated
racing driver skills acquisition. The auditory feedback
provides concurrent sensory augmentation and performance
feedback using a novel target matching design. Real-time,
dynamic, tonal audio feedback representing lateral G-force (a
proxy for tire slip) is delivered to one ear whilst a target
lateral G-force value representing the ‘limit’ of the car, to
which the driver aims to drive, is panned to the driver’s other
ear; tonal match across both ears signifies that the ‘limit’ has
been reached. An evaluation approach was established to
measure the efficacy of the audio feedback in terms of
performance, workload and drivers’ assessment of selfefficacy.
A preliminary human subject study was conducted
in a driving simulator environment. Initial results are
encouraging, indicating that there is potential for performance
gain and driver confidence enhancement based on the audio
feedback.
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2015-07
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