Event

Welcome to a SAFER Thursday lunch seminar! This week the topic is mode confusion, Fjollë Novakazi from Volvo Cars will give a presentation to the SAFER community. 

Design for Perception: A Systematic Approach for the Design of Driving Automation Systems based on the Users’ Perception
Speaker: Fjollë Novakazi, Human Factors | Team DyAD – Driver interaction with AD, Volvo Cars

The design of driving automation system comes with many challenges as the complexity of the driver-vehicle interaction continues to rise with the introduction of different levels of automation into vehicles. As a result, the similarities in behaviours between different systems confuse drivers, leading to mode confusion and the lack of safe usage strategies. Therefore, designers and developers need to design systems that adequately support the driver in building a correct understanding of the systems capabilities and limitations, as well as their own responsibility over the driving task.

Based on a series of empirical studies, a unified descriptive model describing the drivers’ perception and consequent understanding of driving automation systems was developed. This model served as a basis for the creation of a toolkit which aims to support the development of safe systems based on the drivers’ perspective. During three workshops, six practitioners participated in a participatory action research study around a design use case, aiming to enhance mode awareness in a vehicle offering several levels of automation. The developed toolkit supports practitioners to 1. explore possible solutions driven through a systematic approach, 2. identify areas of improvement through systematically applying the lens of the user, 3. ideate and evaluate design decisions through a guided process.

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All SAFER Thursday lunch seminars will be held at the SAFER office and online, via Microsoft Teams, exclusively for SAFER partners. Missing your invitation, please contact Mikael von Redlich.