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Toward a High-Level Integrative Comfort Model in Autonomous Driving

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Although the extant literature on comfort in the autonomous driving research is extensive, no integrative model has been proposed that includes major comfort-influencing factors and their interrelations. In this work, we conduct a literature review and elicit automation-related factors that directly influence a driver’s comfort. The 6 groups of factors include the driving environment, vehicle and automation, and the user’s activity, personality, and understanding of the system. We then structure these in a model comprising environment-, vehicle-, and user-related categories. The resulting framework supports framing research questions about comfort in automation.

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  • (2024)Comfort in Automated Driving: A Literature Survey and a High-Level Integrative FrameworkProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/36785838:3(1-23)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2024

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