CogSci 2025

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August 02, 2025

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San Francisco, United States

keywords:

situated cognition

human factors

Automated vehicle (AV) validation faces the "billions of miles" challenge, requiring high-fidelity simulations to replicate diverse interactive driving behaviors for safety. Traditional methods oversimplify by using uniform behavioral models, ignoring the diversity of human driving styles, which are deeply influenced by individual psychological traits. This research introduces a condensed framework for representing interactive driving styles, by incorporating these psychological dimensions, balancing completeness and complexity. Key features include: i) individual style recognition via attention mechanisms and hierarchical contrastive learning, capturing subtle cognitive-based interaction patterns that reflect underlying differences in driver psychology (e.g., risk tolerance, decision-making heuristics); ii) scenario-independent style compression, filtering external factors to extract intrinsic driver intentions; iii) dimensionality-aware refinement, mapping complex behaviors to low-dimensional psychological axes for efficient computation. Tests on the NGSIM dataset reduced testing complexity by decoupling styles from scenarios. Compared to traditional methods, style distinctiveness improves by 28% (entropy-based), with 85% edge-case behavior coverage. This framework supports scalable AV testing by integrating diverse, psychologically-informed driving styles without combinatorial complexity.

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