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Birsen Donmez
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Research
Latest papers
Effectiveness of ADAS training for young and adult drivers.
Accident; analysis and prevention · 2026 · senior author
Uncertainty displays in pandemic dashboards: a review of COVID-19 use cases.
Frontiers in digital health · 2026 · senior author
DrowsyDG-Phys: Generalizable driver drowsiness estimation in conditional automated vehicles using physiological signals.
Accident; analysis and prevention · 2026
Latest funding
- $450,000
NSERC CREATE Program for Training and Research in Autonomous Vehicles for Reliable Services in the Air and on Land (TRAVERSAL)
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
- $25,000
Informing the Design of Safe Intersections: An On-road Instrumented Vehicle Study Investigating Driver Attentional Failures toward Vulnerable Road Users
SSHRC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $149,863
A Driving Simulator to Investigate Driver-Automation Coordination
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
34 publications.
Effectiveness of ADAS training for young and adult drivers.
Wei L, DeGuzman CA, Donmez B
Uncertainty displays in pandemic dashboards: a review of COVID-19 use cases.
Tessema T, Shahezian M, Vasquez H, Rosella L, Donmez B
DrowsyDG-Phys: Generalizable driver drowsiness estimation in conditional automated vehicles using physiological signals.
Wang J, Li W, Wang Z, Ayas S, Donmez B, He D, Wu K
Threat-cued or action-cued? Effects of attention guidance strategy on decision-support in automated driving under complex takeover situations.
Dou J, Ayas S, Chen M, Sun C, Zhang J, Shi J, Zhang L, Xue C, Chen S, Donmez B
A Vehicle Simulation Study Examining the Effects of System Interface Design Elements on Performance in Different Vibration Environments Below 3 Hz.
Tang X, Yu S, Donmez B, Chu J, Fan H, Li F, Jiang G
Human factors methods in the design of digital decision support systems for population health: a scoping review.
Vasquez HM, Pianarosa E, Sirbu R, Diemert LM, Cunningham H, Harish V, Donmez B, Rosella LC
Drowsiness Mitigation Through Driver State Monitoring Systems: A Scoping Review.
Ayas S, Donmez B, Tang X
Preface to the Special Issue on Assessment and Effectiveness of Driver Monitoring Systems.
Biondi FN, Horrey WJ, Donmez B
Exploring the Behaviour Change Wheel and the Theoretical Domains Framework in interventions for mobile phone driver distraction: A scoping review.
Demir B, Demir S, Wickens CM, Hoseinzadeh Nooshabadi M, Rodak T, Donmez B
Cell phone-related driver distraction: Habits predict behavior over and above the theory of planned behavior variables.
Demir B, Du J, Hansma BJ, Chen HW, Gu H, Donmez B
NSERC CREATE Program for Training and Research in Autonomous Vehicles for Reliable Services in the Air and on Land (TRAVERSAL)
Principal investigators: Kantarci, Burak B
Keywords: 5g/6g-enabled communications; artificial intelligence; autonomous vehicles; cyber-physical systems; cybersecurity; human-computer interaction; inclusive innovation; software security; uncrewed aerial vehicles
Informing the Design of Safe Intersections: An On-road Instrumented Vehicle Study Investigating Driver Attentional Failures toward Vulnerable Road Users
Principal investigators: Donmez, Birsen
Keywords: vulnerable road users; driver attention; road design; intersections; vision zero; traffic safety
A Driving Simulator to Investigate Driver-Automation Coordination
Principal investigators: Donmez, Birsen
Designing in-vehicle infotainment systems: understanding driver mental models and system use
Principal investigators: Donmez, Birsen
Canada Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation
Principal investigators: Donmez, Birsen
Keywords: Human factors; traffic safety; driver behavior; vehicle ; automation; in-vehicle technologies; distraction mitigation; driving simulators; applied statistics
Canada Research Chair in Human Factors and Transportation
Principal investigators: Donmez, Birsen
Designing Feedback to Support Driver-Automation Coordination
Principal investigators: Donmez, Birsen
Designing Feedback to Support Driver-Automation Coordination
Principal investigators: Donmez, Birsen
Keywords: Distraction mitigation; Driver behaviour; Driving simulator; Eye tracking; Human automation interaction; Human factors; Instrumented vehicle; Physiological sensors; Transportation; Vehicle automation
Human Factors and Transportation
Principal investigators: Donmez, Birsen
Keywords: CRC
Human Factors and Transportation
Principal investigators: Donmez, Birsen
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Teodor Grantcharov and Patricia Trbovich: 1 shared paper
- Teodor Grantcharov and Birsen Donmez: 1 shared paper
- Laura Rosella and Birsen Donmez: 1 shared paper
- Patricia Trbovich and Birsen Donmez: 1 shared paper
- Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation
- Mechanical and Industrial Engineering - University of Toronto
- Centre for Urban Health Solutions
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