Usability Assessment of a Smart Cognitive Assistant for Automated Driving

Antonella Toffetti, Elena Balocco, Laura Borgarello, Giovanni Turi, Daniela Bertolino, Benjamin Chateau

2021

Abstract

The Automated Vehicles (AV) are becoming increasingly important in the industrial and mobility domains. The Human Machine Interface and Interaction are two of the main aspects in the AV design, and as such, the consideration of the user is critical to the design process. The European Project SUaaVE (SUpporting acceptance of automated Vehicle) acknowledges that human-centric design is necessary to help AV in becoming accepted and trusted by road users (drivers, passengers, pedestrians) when it is introduced into the market. In the first phase of the project, partners, collaborating on the HMI design, performed different tests. C.R.F. S.C.p.A. performed a user test, which had different objectives. In this paper, the objective of the usability evaluation of the SUaaVE first cognitive HMI prototype is described. The test was performed by showing users a video of automated driving in an AV using the first iteration of the HMI. The findings were then used during the subsequent redesign phase to improve upon the HMI, according to the Human-Centred Design process. This study allowed identifying advantages and limits of the methodology and of the HMI prototype and to identify and share redesign suggestions (for the following phase of the project) with partners.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Toffetti A., Balocco E., Borgarello L., Turi G., Bertolino D. and Chateau B. (2021). Usability Assessment of a Smart Cognitive Assistant for Automated Driving. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: SUaaVE, ISBN 978-989-758-538-8, pages 240-248. DOI: 10.5220/0010725900003060

in Bibtex Style

@conference{suaave21,
author={Antonella Toffetti and Elena Balocco and Laura Borgarello and Giovanni Turi and Daniela Bertolino and Benjamin Chateau},
title={Usability Assessment of a Smart Cognitive Assistant for Automated Driving},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: SUaaVE,},
year={2021},
pages={240-248},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010725900003060},
isbn={978-989-758-538-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: SUaaVE,
TI - Usability Assessment of a Smart Cognitive Assistant for Automated Driving
SN - 978-989-758-538-8
AU - Toffetti A.
AU - Balocco E.
AU - Borgarello L.
AU - Turi G.
AU - Bertolino D.
AU - Chateau B.
PY - 2021
SP - 240
EP - 248
DO - 10.5220/0010725900003060