What's around the corner? Enhancing driver awareness in autonomous vehicles via in-vehicle spatial auditory displays

David Beattie; Lynne Baillie; Martin Halvey; Rod McCall

doi:10.1145/2639189.2641206

What's around the corner? Enhancing driver awareness in autonomous vehicles via in-vehicle spatial auditory displays

David Beattie, Lynne Baillie, Martin Halvey, Rod McCall

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Abstract

There is currently a distinct lack of design consideration associated with autonomous vehicles and their impact on human factors. Research has yet to consider fully the impact felt by the driver when he/she is no longer in control of the vehicle [12]. We propose that spatialised auditory feedback could be used to enhance driver awareness to the intended actions of autonomous vehicles. We hypothesise that this feedback will provide drivers with an enhanced sense of control. This paper presents a driving simulator study where 5 separate auditory feedback methods are compared during both autonomous and manual driving scenarios. We found that our spatialised auditory presentation method alerted drivers to the intended actions of autonomous vehicles much more than all other methods and they felt significantly more in control during scenarios containing sound vs. no sound. Finally, that overall workload in autonomous vehicle scenarios was lower compared to manual vehicle scenarios.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	189-198
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	1595930361, 9781450325424
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2641206
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2014 - Helsinki, Finland Duration: 26 Oct 2014 → 30 Oct 2014

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Conference	8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2014
Abbreviated title	NordiCHI 2014
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Helsinki
Period	26/10/14 → 30/10/14

Keywords

Audio
Autonomous vehicles
Driver awareness
Driving simulators
In-vehicle spatial auditory displays

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Human-Computer Interaction
Software

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Beattie, D, Baillie, L, Halvey, M & McCall, R 2014, What's around the corner? Enhancing driver awareness in autonomous vehicles via in-vehicle spatial auditory displays. in Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 189-198, 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2014, Helsinki, Finland, 26/10/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2639189.2641206

What's around the corner? Enhancing driver awareness in autonomous vehicles via in-vehicle spatial auditory displays. / Beattie, David; Baillie, Lynne; Halvey, Martin et al.
Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 189-198.

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