Conference Paper 2018

Feel the Movement: Real Motion Influences Responses to Take-over Requests in Highly Automated Vehicles

{Take-over requests (TORs) in highly automated vehicles are cues that prompt users to resume control. TORs however, are often evaluated in non-moving driving simulators. This ignores the role of motion, an important source of information for users who have their eyes off the road while engaged in non-driving related tasks. We ran a user study in a moving-base driving simulator to investigate the effect of motion on TOR responses. We found that with motion, user responses to TORs vary depending on the road context where TORs are issued. While previous work showed that participants are fast to respond to urgent cues, we show that this is true only when TORs are presented on straight roads. Urgent cues issued on curved roads elicit slower responses than non-urgent cues on curved roads. Our findings indicate that TORs should be designed to be aware of road context to accommodate natural user responses.}

Author(s): Borojeni, SS and Boll, SCJ and Heuten, W and Bülthoff, HH and Chuang, L
Book Title: 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Pages: 1--13
Year: 2018
Publisher: ACM Press
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)
Address: Montreal, Canada
DOI: 10.1145/3173574.3173820
Electronic Archiving: grant_archive

BibTex

@inproceedings{BorojeniBHBC2018,
  title = {{Feel the Movement: Real Motion Influences Responses to Take-over Requests in Highly Automated Vehicles}},
  booktitle = {{2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}},
  abstract = {{Take-over requests (TORs) in highly automated vehicles are cues that prompt users to resume control. TORs however, are often evaluated in non-moving driving simulators. This ignores the role of motion, an important source of information for users who have their eyes off the road while engaged in non-driving related tasks. We ran a user study in a moving-base driving simulator to investigate the effect of motion on TOR responses. We found that with motion, user responses to TORs vary depending on the road context where TORs are issued. While previous work showed that participants are fast to respond to urgent cues, we show that this is true only when TORs are presented on straight roads. Urgent cues issued on curved roads elicit slower responses than non-urgent cues on curved roads. Our findings indicate that TORs should be designed to be aware of road context to accommodate natural user responses.}},
  pages = {1--13},
  publisher = {ACM Press},
  address = {Montreal, Canada},
  year = {2018},
  slug = {borojenibhbc2018},
  author = {Borojeni, SS and Boll, SCJ and Heuten, W and B\"ulthoff, HH and Chuang, L}
}