Event

On Thursday June 21st at 10:00, Niklas Strand, Industrial PhD Student from VTI, connected to Department of Product and Production Development, Chalmers, will have his licentiate seminar.

Niklas Strand is working within the SAFER project System Safety through combination of HMI and Dependable Systems (SHADES).

Title: "Facing Failures. Interactions between Drivers and Advanced Assistance Systems"

Opponent: Prof Håkan ALm, Luleå tekniska universitet

If you want a printed copy before the defense, please email Niklas: niklas dot strand at vti dot se
 

Welcome!

Abstract
Drivers’ interactions with advanced driver assistance systems based on experiences from real driving and results from driving in a driving simulator were under investigation in this thesis. Questions posed were: 
•      How do drivers perceive and interact with ADAS?
•      How are (technical) failures handled by drivers, and which are the consequences’ of these failures?
•      Which are the implications for diagnosis and detection of failures, as well as for system development?
Special attention was given to driver behavior in response to technical failures in an adaptive cruise control system. The results are based on two studies, study I “focus group study” and study II “driving simulator study”, adopting an approach with a mixture of qualitative and quantitative data.

In study I focus group interviews were conducted and in study II a driving simulator experiment was conducted. The findings include notions on behavioral adaptations, and monitoring inefficiencies for drivers facing failures. Implications for design, failure detection, and traffic safety are discussed. Based on these studies with regard to human-machine-interaction it is concluded that there are effects on behavior, that these effects are individual and based on experience, and that measures towards failure containment should be a taken. 
Keywords: ADAS; Driver behavior; HMI; Simulator studies; Human error; Technical error