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Vehicle pedestrian communication is extremely important when developing autonomy for an autonomous vehicle. Enabling bidirectional nonverbal communication between pedestrians and autonomous vehicles will lead to an improvement of pedestrians’ safety in autonomous driving. The autonomous vehicle should provide feedback to the human about what it is about to do. The user study presented in this paper investigated several possible options for an external vehicle display for effective nonverbal communication between an autonomous vehicle and a human. The result of this study will guide the development of the feedback module to optimize for public acceptance and trust in the autonomous vehicle’s decision while being legible to the widest range of potential users. The results of this study show that participants prefer symbols over text, lights and road projection. We plan to elaborate and focus on the selected interaction modes via Virtual Reality and in the real world in ongoing and future studies.
Supported by the Nevada NASA Space Grant Consortium, Grant No. 80NSSC20M00043.
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Schmidt-Wolf, M., Feil-Seifer, D. (2022). Vehicle-To-Pedestrian Communication Feedback Module: A Study on Increasing Legibility, Public Acceptance and Trust. In: Cavallo, F., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13817. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_2
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