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Rafael Gonçalves wins best student paper award at Driving Assessment 2019

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Rafael Gonçalves wins best student paper award at Driving Assessment 2019
Dr Tyron Louw (left), Rafael (Right), Professor Natasha Merat (right)

Rafael Gonçalves (middle), a first-year PhD student in the Human Factors & Safety group, won the Honda Outstanding Student Paper Award at the 10th Driving Assessment Conference, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

This award was based on his paper, "Using Markov Chains to understand the sequence of drivers' gaze transitions during lane-changes in automated driving", with co-authors Dr. Tyron Louw (left), Dr. Ruth Madigan, and Professor Natasha Merat (right).

Rafael is a recipient of the Leeds Doctoral Scholarship and is supervised by Professor Natasha Merat and Dr. Tyron Louw. His research is on how drivers' gaze behaviour metrics can be used to predict their take-over performance and decision-making while interacting with highly automated driving systems.