Driver’s situational awareness and impact of phone interface modality in conventional and semi-autonomous vehicles

Publication Date

1-1-2020

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Title

Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2020: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration (IHSI 2020): Integrating People and Intelligent Systems, February 19-21, 2020, Modena, Italy

Editor

Tareq Ahram, Waldemar Karwowski, Alberto Vergnano, Francesco Leali, Redha Taiar

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-39512-4_144

First Page

945

Last Page

951

Abstract

This project investigated how different modes of interaction of drivers with a smartphone (i.e., manual texting vs. voice usage) affected driver’s situational awareness in both conventional and semi-automated vehicles. The study, which was executed in a human-in-the-loop setting, shows that participants expressed personal preferences for the vocal interface in all the tested scenarios. However, few metrics actually showed statistical significance and an improvement of performance with the vocal interface as compared to the manual one.

Funding Number

69A3551747127

Funding Sponsor

U.S. Department of Transportation

Keywords

Human-in-the-loop simulation, Situational awareness, Texting and driving

Department

Aviation and Technology

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