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Visualizing implicit eHMI for autonomous vehicles

Published: 21 September 2019 Publication History

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Autonomous vehicles' (AVs) interactions with pedestrians remain an ongoing uncertainty. Studies claim the need for explicit external human-machine interfaces (eHMI) such as lights to replace the lack of eye contact with and explicit gestures from drivers. To further explore this area, we conducted a naturalistic field study using the Ghostdriver protocol to explore how pedestrians react to a simulated driverless vehicle stopping at a crosswalk in real traffic on real roads. All pedestrians crossed in front of the vehicle with little hesitation, even though we did not signal anything beyond the vehicle's stopping motion. A few were surprised at the vehicle's novelty, however most paid little attention to its autonomous appearance. The video includes demonstrative examples of the kinds of reactions we observed, which we hope will further a dialogue on the role of eHMI in AV-pedestrian interactions.

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Rebecca Currano, So Yeon Park, Lawrence Domingo, Jesus Garcia-Mancilla, Pedro Santana-Mancilla, Victor Gonzalez, and Wendy Ju. 2018. Vamos! Observations of Pedestrian Interactions with Driverless Cars in Mexico. In 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '18). ACM, Toronto, Canada.
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Dylan Moore, Rebecca Currano, G. Ella Strack, and David Sirkin. 2019. The Case for Implicit External Human-Machine Interfaces for Autonomous Vehicles. In AutoUI 2019. Utrecht, Netherlands.
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Dirk Rothenbücher, Jamy Li, David Sirkin, Brian Mok, and Wendy Ju. 2016. Ghost Driver: A Field Study Investigating the Interaction between Pedestrians and Driverless Vehicles. In Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium On. 795--802.

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AutomotiveUI '19: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications: Adjunct Proceedings
September 2019
524 pages
ISBN:9781450369206
DOI:10.1145/3349263
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Published: 21 September 2019

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  1. autonomous vehicles
  2. driverless cars
  3. external human-machine interfaces
  4. ghostdriver
  5. implicit interaction
  6. pedestrian interaction
  7. wizard-of-Oz

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