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Interactions among drivers are an essential part of the driving task and need to be considered in the design of interaction strategies of automated vehicles. Interactions between drivers relevant to left and right turns in unsignalized urban intersections were recorded via an eye glass mounted gaze sensor. Participants were asked to retrospectively comment aloud on the process of their decision making for each case of interaction. The typical sequences of actions that were observed relevant to left and right turns may be used as a basis for designing turning strategies for automated vehicles. Establishing eye contact was considered as a good means to convince the other driver to yield, while avoiding eye contact was interpreted as unwillingness to do so. Vehicle edging was intentionally used by participants so that the other coming drivers could better see them. Automated vehicles should consider using edging and directed communication to other drivers in their interaction strategies.
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This work is a part of the interACT project. interACT has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research & innovation programme under grant agreement no 723395. Content reflects only the authors’ view and European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
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Portouli, E., Nathanael, D., Gkikas, K., Amditis, A., Psarakis, L. (2019). Field Observations of Interactions Among Drivers at Unsignalized Urban Intersections. In: Bagnara, S., Tartaglia, R., Albolino, S., Alexander, T., Fujita, Y. (eds) Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018). IEA 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 823. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96074-6_24
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