Risø National Laboratory

A national laboratory under the ministry for Science technology and innovation

Risø National Laboratory

Risø was founded in 1956 to focus on nuclear research

Risø has about 750 employees of whom app. 300 are academic staff, excluding app. 60 PhD students

Total income: 73 mill. €

Systems Analysis Department

• Research addressing aspects of complex industrial systems and energy systems

• Emphasis on environmental considerations and human factors

• Decision making in R&D

• Cross-disciplinary scientific staff of about 70

Safety, Reliability and Human Factors

• Mission• Development of methods for the analysis

of the safety and reliability of complex technical systems including technical as well as organisational and human aspects

• Competencies• Testing and evaluation of human-machine

systems; cognitive work analysis, task analysis; hazard identification; human error classification; incident reporting; safety culture, risk analysis, safety management, fault tree analysis

• Cross-disciplinary scientific staff of 16

The human-machine interaction lab

Combined head- and eye-tracking

Remote eye-movement tracking

Eye-typing - EyeMouse

Eye-typing – Blink It

Head mounted blink sensor based on direct infra red occulography 1 kHZ sampling

VINTHEC II (Visual Interaction in the Cockpit II)

• The VINTHEC II project explores the relationship between aviation safety and crew interaction in terms of team Situation Awareness; examining how the aviation training community and cockpit designers might monitor crew behaviour

• Measures

• Eye point of gaze

• Verbal and non-verbal

• De-briefing questionnaires

SAFESOUND

Exploring and evaluating the potential of introducing enhanced audio functionalities in the cockpits to improve aviation safety by way of:

• voice recognition

• synthetic audio

• 3D sound

DCDU MCDURMP

Sight Effectiveness Enhancement (SEE)

Head Up Display image

Enhancement of the driver’sview by infrared sensors

Risø’s contribution is an experimental trial of the automotive and aeronautical application. The evaluations will measure the efficiency and HMI characteristics of the prototype

Anaesthesia simulation

COGITO: Proactive Agents

• Development of conversational agents technology that supports interaction in natural language

• Development of 3D animated cartoon like agent with emotional facial expressions

• Study of end-user needs and behavior

• Evaluation of the COGITO system

Eye-tracking in the wild

Usablity test of mobile phone

People involved

Hans H. K. Andersen

Steen WeberThomas M. Jorgensen

Alexandre Alapetite