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What are Social Norms for Low-speed Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Crowded Environments? An Online Survey

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It has been suggested that autonomous vehicles can improve efficiency and safety of the transportation systems. While research in this area often focuses on autonomous vehicles which operate on roads, the deployment of low-speed, autonomous vehicles in unstructured, crowded environments has been studied less well and requires specific considerations regarding their interaction with pedestrians. For making the operation of these vehicles acceptable, their behaviour needs to be perceived as safe by both pedestrians and the passengers riding the vehicle. In this paper we conducted an online survey with 116 participants, to understand people’s preferences with respect to an autonomous golf cart’s behaviour in different interaction scenarios. We measured people’s self-reported perceived safety towards different behaviour of the cart in a variety of scenarios. Results suggested that despite the unstructured nature of the environment, the cart was expected to follow common traffic rules when interacting with a group of pedestrians.

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    HAI '21: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction
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    1. Social interaction
    2. autonomous low-speed vehicle
    3. social norms
    4. unstructured environment

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    • (2024)A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challengesThe International Journal of Robotics Research10.1177/0278364924123056243:10(1533-1572)Online publication date: 12-Feb-2024
    • (2022)A Proxemic Potential Field Approach for Modeling Interactions Between Autonomous Vehicles with Pedestrians and Cyclists2022 IEEE International Autumn Meeting on Power, Electronics and Computing (ROPEC)10.1109/ROPEC55836.2022.10018650(1-6)Online publication date: 9-Nov-2022

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