Coping with Complex Driving Scenarios: Exploratory Scenario Design

Kurzfassung

The design of current scenarios in driving simulators can already be very challenging. It is assumed that new components of driving simulation, like coupling of simulators or the introduction and addressing of additional agents (e.g. pedestrians, cyclists or communicating infrastructure like Road Side Units) will aggravate this problem. Therefore, the issues of current scenario design have been analysed and recommendations have been extracted leading to a new suggested approach of scenario design. This new approach is driven by tools promoting the collaboration of the people involved in scenario design. Being part of a PhD thesis, this paper describes both the process and the needed tools, focussing on the operation of a multi-touch table guiding through the design.