The Dynamic Human Vehicle Relationship through Robotic Interaction Systems: An exploratory look into how robots can add value to the interaction with fully autonomous vehicles

With the imminent rise of vehicle automation the human driver will have increasingly less responsibility for driving. At one point this will even mean that cars will be able to fully drive themselves, so that the driver is relieved of all driving related tasks. In this situation the car effectively becomes a robot, resulting in a novel...

Welcome to my Bubble: Designing the interaction between pedestrian, autonomous vehicle and the city at cross walk

In a future where most of our transit system consists of autonomous vehicle, the question is raised how we as humans interact and communicate with them, and they with us. This project explores these interactions in the current time to uncover how humans interact and negotiate in traffic. More specifically how pedestrians do so. From the analysis...

Design for Calibrated Trust For Acceptance of Autonomous Vehicles

The advent of a society in which autonomous technology coexists with humans is an inevitability. The project focuses on one such autonomous technology in the form of autonomous vehicles or self driving cars. The benefits of such automation is well documented in academia and is supported by the investment by some of the biggest automobile and...