Supporting Driver Situation Awareness for Autonomous Urban Driving with an Augmented-Reality Windshield Display

Patrick Lindemann, Tae Young Lee, Gerhard Rigoll

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Abstract

Urban traffic environments can create unpredictable hazardous situations. Even future, highly reliable automated cars (ACs) could be forced to execute sudden, surprising maneuvers causing driver discomfort and possibly a loss of trust. A counter measure might be to support driver situation awareness (SA) in such scenarios. We simulated an explanatory windshield display (WSD) interface for ACs to increase driver SA in a mixed-reality driving simulation. The interface combines screen-fixed elements and world-registered augmented reality (AR) overlays. We conducted a user study to evaluate the interface in which participants encountered critical urban driving situations and answered SA test questions during on-line freeze probes. We found a significant improvement of driver SA with the WSD interface in clear weather conditions (medium effect) as well as in bad visibility conditions (large effect).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdjunct Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages358-363
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781538675922
DOIs
StatePublished - 2 Jul 2018
Event17th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2018 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 16 Oct 201820 Oct 2018

Publication series

NameAdjunct Proceedings - 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2018

Conference

Conference17th IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, ISMAR-Adjunct 2018
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period16/10/1820/10/18

Keywords

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)
  • Human-centered computing
  • Human-centered computing
  • Interaction design
  • Interaction paradigms
  • Mixed / augmented reality

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