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For a successful market introduction of Level 3 Automated Driving Systems (L3 ADS), a careful evaluation of Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) is necessary. This paper describes an empirical evaluation of a checklist that has been previously developed for the use in heuristic expert assessments, demonstrating that an ADS HMI that meets the guidelines as defined in the checklist scores higher in several measures of usability and acceptance than an HMI that does not meet the checklist requirements. Therefore, N = 57 participants completed two 15-min drives with an L3 ADS in a driving simulator. They experienced two variations of a L3 ADS HMI that differed in the degree of complying with the checklist. Inferential statistics showed that acceptance and usability measures differed substantially between the two experimental HMIs. Behavioral observations of interaction performance also demonstrate that non-compliance with the checklist items lowers the usability of the L3 system.
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Forster, Y., Hergeth, S., Naujoks, F., Krems, J.F., Keinath, A. (2020). Empirical Validation of a Checklist for Heuristic Evaluation of Automated Vehicle HMIs. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Factors of Transportation. AHFE 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 964. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20503-4_1
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