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Our newest driving simulator is here! The truck driving simulator has three 50-inch wide monitors to display a wide field of view. It includes a real truck driver seat, steering wheel, gear shifter (with options...

HFASt Lab won two best paper awards at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society that was hosted in Washington DC.   Dr. Dengbo He and Dr. Birsen Donmez received...

Our lab’s research on visual checks during right turns at red light got featured in a recent news article on the Guardian. The article examines the increasing pedestrian deaths in the US and discussing...

Alia Galal wins an Excellence Award in the 2023 Canada Safest Employers Awards (CSEAs) Competition, organized by the Occupational Health and Safety Magazine.  For the 13th year, the annual CSEAs is the leading independent awards program in the profession of...

HFASt research was recognized as a best paper finalist for the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Mechatronics for the paper titled “Classification of Driver Cognitive Load Based on Physiological Data: Exploring Recurrent...

Congratulations to Alia Galal who received the Best Poster Award at the 2022 Conference of the Canadian Association of Road Safety Professionals (CARSP) for: Galal, A., Donmez, B., Roorda, M. (2022).  Improving truck driver and vulnerable road...

An article by the Science Times used research by the HFASt lab to highlight the overreliance on AV technology. Lead author, Dengbo He, noted that future automated vehicles should be designed with the driver’s...

A study by researchers Dengbo He, Dina Kanaan, and Professor Birsen Donmez at U of T’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering reveals some in-vehicle displays can lead to drivers being over-reliant on automated...

To better understand vehicle accidents involving cyclists and pedestrians, researchers at U of T are working with the City of Guelph to study how drivers’ attention and gaze are affected at intersections. Link to...