What is ISO/TS 14198 about?
ISO/TS 14198 is an international standard on road vehicles that provide methods to assess driver attentional demand due to the use of in-vehicle systems.
ISO/TS 14198 provides procedures that can be used as a secondary task in a dual-task setting to determine whether that evaluation setting is standardized and valid for purposes of assessing driver attentional demand due to the use of an in-vehicle system.
ISO/TS 14198 provides guidance on selecting a calibration task given a specific primary task. The primary tasks of interest include those that would be used in the evaluation of attentional demand.
The description of a calibration task includes its application, experimental setup, data collection, and procedures for analysis of results.
The purpose of ISO/TS 14198 is not to define a reference criterion as to whether a given secondary task is suitable for use while driving. Although specific settings of parameters of a calibration task might be used to realize such a predefined pass/fail criterion, does not provide such a criterion for a given level of attentional demand.
Who is ISO/TS 14198 for?
ISO/TS 14198 on road vehicles is useful for:
- Mechanical engineers
- Personnel of information and control systems
Why should you use ISO/TS 14198?
A calibration task is a type of reference task used for the purpose of comparing different tests or test results between sites, or over time at a given site. ISO/TS 14198 provides the principle and types of calibration tasks.
Development of the calibration tasks and associated procedures is given in ISO/TS 14198.
Description of critical tracking task (CTT), surrogate reference task (SURT), and N-back, their operation, set up methods, and test conditions are provided in ISO/TS 14198 along with the participant’s details and participants instructions.
The calibration assessment using a primary task performance measure is also specified in ISO/TS 14198.
Overall, ISO/TS 14198 guides you to assess the effect on driving performance of the driver attentional demand due to driver interaction with an information, entertainment, and control or communication system while a vehicle is in motion. It helps transport information and control systems to provide detailed and accurate information to pass onto customers and improve their customer service.
What’s changed since the last update?
PD ISO/TS 14198:2019 supersedes PD ISO/TS 14198:2012. PD ISO/TS 14198:2019 includes some technical changes with respect to PD ISO/TS 14198:2012. These include:
- In addition to the Lane Change Test (LCT), the Detection Response Task (DRT) is added as a primary task
- In addition to the Critical Tracking Task (CTT) and Surrogate Reference Task (SURT), the n-back task is added as a calibration task.