Abstract
Autonomous driving is a topic of extensive research; however user views on this new technology are largely unexplored, especially for an inclusive population. This paper presents a survey and two focus groups, investigating driving habits and attitudes towards autonomous cars of an inclusive group of UK drivers. A subset of survey participants were invited to attend one of two focus groups, to discuss handovers of control between car and driver. Maintaining safety, trust and control were themes commonly identified in both focus groups, while unique views and concerns, relating to different characteristics of the group were expressed. These results can inform an inclusive, user-centred design of autonomous vehicle interfaces, especially for the safety-critical use case of driver handovers of control.
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The survey used Google Forms and can be found in https://goo.gl/Ya88ds.
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This work was funded by EPSRC and Jaguar-Land Rover, as part of the project Human Interaction: Designing Autonomy in Vehicles (HI:DAVe), Project Grant Number: EP/N011899/1.
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Politis, I., Langdon, P., Bradley, M., Skrypchuk, L., Mouzakitis, A., Clarkson, P.J. (2018). Designing Autonomy in Cars: A Survey and Two Focus Groups on Driving Habits of an Inclusive User Group, and Group Attitudes Towards Autonomous Cars. In: Di Bucchianico, G., Kercher, P. (eds) Advances in Design for Inclusion. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 587. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60597-5_15
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