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Children's views on identification and intention communication of self-driving vehicles
  One of the major reasons behind traffic accidents is misinterpretation among road users. Self-driving vehicles are expected to reduce these accidents, given that they are designed with all road users in mind. Recently, research on the design of vehicle-pedestrian communication has emerged, but to our knowledge, there is no research published that investigates the design of interfaces for intent communication towards child pedestrians. This paper reports the initial steps towards the examination of children's views and understandings about the appearance and intention communication of self-driving vehicles. It adopts a design inclusive methodological approach for the development of a prototype for the communication of two basic intentions: "I am going to stop" and "I am going to proceed". The initial results indicate children's need to be aware about the autonomy of the vehicle and the use of their previous experience with traffic signs for the interpretation of communicative signs of the vehicle.

  • Date:

    27 June 2017

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • DOI:

    10.1145/3078072.3084300

  • Funders:

    Historic Funder (pre-Worktribe)

Citation

Charisi, V., Habibovic, A., Andersson, J., Li, J., & Evers, V. (2017, June). Children's views on identification and intention communication of self-driving vehicles. Presented at Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Stanford, California

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Keywords

child pedestrians, inclusive design research, intention communication, interface design, self-driving vehicles

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