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PlatoonPal: User-Centered Development and Evaluation of an Assistance System for Heavy-Duty Truck Platooning

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Truck platooning has advantages for fuel consumption, road safety, and use of the existing road infrastructure. However, it does not simplify the job of truck drivers who reportedly fear driving in close distance and mistrust the automation. Prior work indicates that a platooning assistant system can help overcoming these issues. However, there are no practical experiences with on-the-road platooning that shed light on how drivers perceive and evaluate such a system. In this work, we close this gap and present PlatoonPal, a platooning assistance system which we rigorously developed in a user centered way. We further present the results of a field test with three platooning trucks where drivers used PlatoonPal under real conditions. The results show that drivers are positive using the system and preferred information related closely to the current situation. We conclude the paper with guidelines for the future development of assistance systems for platooning.

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    Automotive'UI 16: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
    October 2016
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    DOI:10.1145/3003715
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    1. Truck platooning
    2. assistance system
    3. automotive
    4. field test
    5. human-machine interface
    6. qualitative evaluation
    7. user interface

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    • (2023)Using Eye Tracking to Measure Overall Usability of Online Grocery Shopping WebsitesInternational Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications10.4018/IJMCMC.32612914:1(1-24)Online publication date: 14-Jul-2023
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