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We're thrilled to share with you that our Academic lead, Prof Natasha Merat has been named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to future transport systems in the King's Birthday Honours list this week. Professor Merat is an experimental psychologist who seeks to understand how road users interact with...
Last week (4th and 5th June 2025) the Hi Drive Consortium met in Athens for its 3rd and final General Assembly. Representatives from all project partners gathered from across Europe to reflect on progress and align on the final steps ahead. The University of Leeds was represented by our Virtuocity Academic Lead Prof Natasha Merat,...
We were privileged to host Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care at Virtuocity on Thursday 5th June. During the visit to the University of Leeds the MP announced a new digital hub in Leeds city centre, being launched by the Government agency the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Pete...
2024 marks 30 years since the installation of the first Driving Simulator at the University of Leeds, facilitating three decades of groundbreaking research on human-in-the-loop simulator studies investigating road user behaviour, in a bid to improve road safety. To mark the occasion, current and past members of the Human Factors and Safety group at the...
We're delighted to have successfully deployed an update to one of our static simulators to allow for a more detailed and adaptable set-up for studies that do not require the full immersion and motion of our 8 degree of freedom Driving Simulator. Our developer team have added independent HD-quality rear view and wing mirrors, and a...
Cutting-edge research equipment is receiving an upgrade 18 years after it first came into service at the University. Time has been called on the current generation of our advanced driving simulator in Virtuocity – a unique programme for city simulation and co-design – with the retirement of the much-loved Jaguar S-Type interface vehicle. Launched in 2006, the...
Virtuocity was recently the subject of a case study on the main University of Leeds website ahead of hosting delegates from the Times Higher Education Digital Universities UK conference. We hosted over 50 Delegates across the week who got to experience our facilities first hand and ask us about how our research impacts the world...
We are pleased to announce the following new project: Public Trust in Autonomous Vehicles at the Intersection of Computer Vision Technology and Human Factors: https://phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/955-public-trust-in-autonomous-vehicles-at-the-intersection-of-computer-vision-technology-and-human-factors The application deadline for the above project is Monday 22nd March 2021. Please follow the links above for more details.
A new paper, led by PhD researcher Rafael Cirino Gonçalves, was recently published in Accident Analysis & Prevention. The paper reports on a driving simulator study, originally conducted as part of the AdaptiVe project, which investigated how drivers’ eye movements and visual information acquisition strategies changed based on the level of vehicle automation intervention and...
In the future, Automated Vehicles (AVs) will be deployed in mixed traffic situations, where they will need to interact with other road users, including other vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians. Members of the Human Factors and Safety Group from ITS were one of eight partners in the EU-funded project, interACT, which aimed to address this issue....