publications

selected publications representing recent and foundational work from the HiACE Lab

2026

  1. CVPRW
    ICR-Drive: Instruction Counterfactual Robustness for End-to-End Language-Driven Autonomous Driving
    Kaiser Hamid, Can Cui, and Nade Liang
    In CVPR 2026 Workshop on Deployment of Foundation Models for Embodied AI (WDFM-EAI), 2026

2025

  1. arXiv
    FSDAM: Few-Shot Driver Attention Modeling via Vision-Language Coupling
    Kaiser Hamid, Can Cui, Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.12708, 2025
  2. HFES
    Asymmetric Shifts in Risk Perception: Evaluating Driver Responses to Traffic Density Transitions
    Peihang Li and Nade Liang
    In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2025
  3. Appl. Ergon.
    Understanding Older Adults’ Needs for and Perceptions of Shared Autonomous Vehicle Interior Features: A Focus Group and User Enactment Study
    Nade Liang, Ashima Krishna, Brandon J. Pitts, and 3 more authors
    Applied Ergonomics, 2025

2024

  1. HFES
    Machine Learning for Prediction of Driver Takeover Time in Automated Driving: Insights from Non-urgent Low Consequence Scenarios
    Ryan Thomas Villarreal, Nade Liang, Brandon J. Pitts, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 2024

2023

  1. HF
    Physiological Measurements of Situation Awareness: A Systematic Review
    Ting Zhang, Jing Yang, Nade Liang, and 6 more authors
    Human Factors, 2023

2021

  1. AAP
    Using Eye-Tracking to Investigate the Effects of Pre-Takeover Visual Engagement on Situation Awareness During Automated Driving
    Nade Liang, Jing Yang, Denny Yu, and 5 more authors
    Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2021