Session Description and Outputs
This session will provide an overview of the results from a number of studies conducted in Europe, Japan and US to understand current road user interaction with vehicles, in mixed urban traffic. The aim of these studies is to establish what information and interaction techniques drivers and pedestrians currently use to communicate and cooperate with each other, in order to inform design of future AVs, when human drivers are no longer in charge. The talk will also include results from new methods used to study this subject, as well as preliminary findings from pedestrian response to new external HMIs.
Workshop attendees will have the chance to consider the value of these findings during small group discussions. Outputs from this session should provide further insight regarding the safe deployment of AVs in mixed traffic, to ensure intuitive and cooperative interaction and communication between these vehicles and other raod users.
Agenda
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM – Short introduction to the session and main aims of the workshop – Natasha Merat
1:45 PM-2:45 PM – Presentations Part 1
- Sid Mirsa, CEO and co-founder, Perceptive Automata, Beyond geometric trajectory: Intent prediction for external HMI using psychophysical learning model
- Josh Domeyer, Engineer, Toyota Collaborative Safety Research Center, Automated Vehicle-Other Road User Communication and Coordination: Theory and Mechanisms
- Andy Schaudt, Project Director, Automated Vehicle Systems, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Will External Communication Signals Cause Road User Confusion between Automated Vehicles and Emergency Vehicles?
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM Break
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM Presentations Part 2
- Azra Habibovic, Senior Researcher, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Automated platoons and external signaling: Methods and metrics for evaluation of interactions with other road users
- Natasha Merat, Professor, Human factors and transport systems, University of Leeds, Using VR to understand pedestrian response to approaching automated vehicles, how do eHMI affect crossing behavior?
- Satoshi Katazaki, PI, SIP-adus Human Factors Research Project, Director, Automotive Human Factors Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), On-road communication of an automated vehicle with pedestrians: comparison between UK and Japan.
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM Small group discussions
Small group discussions around the themes outlined above, providing solutions and alternative thoughts, including a short summary of conclusions from each group.
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Wrap up and Conclusions - including a discussion about the next steps
Quick summary from each group, conclusions and next steps