Secondary task and situation awareness, a mobile application for conditionally automated vehicles
Published in AutomotiveUI 19: the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Utrecht, Netherlands, 2019
Recommended citation: Marine Capallera, Emmanuel de Salis, Quentin Meteier, Leonardo Angelini, Stefano Carrino, Omar Abou Khaled, and Elena Mugellini. 2019. Secondary task and situation awareness, a mobile application for conditionally automated vehicles. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications: Adjunct Proceedings (AutomotiveUI 19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 86–92. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3349263.3351500
Abstract :
Autonomous vehicles are developing rapidly and will lead to a significant change in the driver’s role: s/he will have to move from the role of actor to the role of supervisor. Indeed, s/he will soon be able to perform a secondary task but s/he must be able to take over control when a critical situation is not managed by the driving system. The role of new interfaces and interactions within the vehicle is important to take into account. This article describes the design of an application that provides the driver with information about the environment perceived by the vehicle. This application is displayed as split screen on a tablet by which a secondary task can be performed. The results of initial experiment showed that the participants correctly identified all the factors limiting the proper functioning of the driving system while performing a secondary task on the tablet.