Publication

The risk of being involved in a traffic car accident increases with age. Countermeasures such as advanced driver assistance system and retraining programs have both been ways of trying to reverse this trend. This thesis sought to merge the two countermeasures by exploring the idea of a system that gives feedback on elders’ driving. Two separate requirement assessments were carried out with the aims to address what, when and how feedback should be communicated to elderly drivers. Additional aims were to assess requirements that could affect the acceptance and trust in relation to the system. Firstly, a literature review assessed requirements based on preexisting knowledge in relevant domains. Secondly, focus group interviews with driver instructors and elderly drivers were performed to assess requirements in relation to the specific system idea. The results reveal several requirements that could serve as input to the design of the system. The results and their possible implications are discussed.