Title
The impact of vehicle appearance and vehicle behavior on pedestrian interaction with autonomous vehicles
Author
Dey, D.
Martens, M.H.
Eggen, J.H.
Terken, J.M.B.
Publication year
2017
Abstract
In this paper, we present the preliminary results of a study that aims to investigate the role of an approaching vehicle's behavior and outer appearance in determining pedestrians' decisions while crossing a street. Concerning appearance, some vehicles are designed to look more assertive than others, and it is believed that vehicle appearance may reflect the driver's social behavior in traffic. In the case of autonomous vehicles, since the human driver no longer controls the vehicle's action, the question arises whether pedestrians treat autonomous and manually-driven vehicles differently when deciding to cross the street. We devised an experiment to determine the impact of the behavioral and physical attributes of a vehicle on pedestrians' roadcrossing decisions, both for manually-driven and autonomous vehicles. Preliminary results show that in both cases, distance and speed play a dominant role in pedestrians' decision to cross a road when compared to the vehicle's size and appearance. © 2017 ACM. ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
Subject
Human & Operational Modelling
PCS - Perceptual and Cognitive Systems
ELSS - Earth, Life and Social Sciences
Autonomous vehicles
Pedestrian behavior
Pedestrians
Road crossing behavior
Vehicle appearance
Vehicle behavior
Roads and streets
User interfaces
Vehicles
Autonomous Vehicles
Pedestrian behavior
Pedestrians
Road crossing behavior
Vehicle behavior
Pedestrian safety
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/3131726.3131750
TNO identifier
782431
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN
9781450351515
Source
9th ACM International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, AutomotiveUI 2017. 24 September 2017 through 27 September 2017, Oldenburg, Germany, 158-162
Document type
conference paper