Ergonomic Evaluation of a Driverless Pod Design

Wasser, Joscha; Diels, Cyriel; Baxendale, Anthony; Tovey, Michael

doi:10.1177/1541931218621317

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“…Therefore, the steering wheel takes up a considerable part of the area in which the motions are performed. Wasser et al (Wasser et al 2018) conduct an ergonomic evaluation with a mock-up of an autonomous car. They use a questionnaire to collect data, but they do not include boarding.…”

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Concept Development Process for Doors of Autonomous Vehicles

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Vehicle doors have barely changed in recent decades, and nor has the car. Since autonomous driving will lead to changes in vehicles and how they are used, their doors will also have to be rethought. In the project UNICARagil, researchers from several universities in Germany design and build four prototypes of driverless and autonomous vehicles, which are developed based on a new and modular architecture. As part of this, we developed a concept including a prototype of an automated door system. In this paper, we present our concept development process adapted for door systems of autonomous vehicles. Based on the vehicle concept development process, it should help researchers and engineers to select and design new door concepts in an early phase. At the end, by means of an example, we present the prototype of our door concept as well as a boarding user study we carried out. This study helps evaluate and improve the boarding comfort of future door concepts.

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Concept Development Process for Doors of Autonomous Vehicles

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“…Existing studies have explored the inclusion of older and disabled people in the design of SAVs [1][2][3]6], and used participatory design methods to explore specific needs of excluded groups [5] and full scale SAV mock-ups to test accessibility of SAVs with disabled people [12,14]. Despite these efforts to address the needs of individual excluded groups, it is important to explore how the needs of multiple excluded groups can be met by identifying common areas of exclusion and developing solutions which address these areas.…”

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Imagining an Inclusive Future for Shared Autonomous Vehicle Interiors: A Participatory Design Workshop Study

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et al. 2022

Adjunct Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

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The introduction of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) has the potential to provide better transport to people groups who currently experience transport exclusion. In this paper we describe a series of four workshops carried out with members of a range of transport excluded people groups-older people (65+), women, disabled people, neurodivergent people, and people with mental health conditions (N=11). Workshops explored existing experiences of transport with a journey mapping activity and participants generated inclusive design solutions for SAVs through a participatory design activity. Through thematic analysis of workshop data, we identified 3 main areas where design intervention in the interiors of SAVs could create more inclusive SAV journey experiences. These areas were adaptability, safety & security, and navigability & familiarity. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Accessibility; Empirical studies in accessibility; Accessibility; Accessibility design and evaluation methods; • Social and professional topics → User characteristics; Age; Seniors; User characteristics; People with disabilities; User characteristics; Gender; Women.

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