Feeling-of-safety slider: Measuring pedestrian willingness to cross roads in field interactions with vehicles

Francesco Walker, Marieke Martens, Debargha Dey, Bastian Pfleging, Berry Eggen, Jacques Terken

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    Abstract

    Can interactions between automated vehicles and pedestrians be evaluated in a quantifiable and standardized way? In order to answer this, we designed an input device in the form of a continuous slider that enables pedestrians to indicate their willingness to cross a road and their feeling of safety in real time in response to an approaching vehicle. In an initial field study, 71% of the participants reported that they were able to use the device naturally and indicate their feeling of safety satisfactorily. The feeling-of-safety slider can consequently be used to evaluate and benchmark interactions between pedestrians and vehicles, and compare communication interfaces for automated vehicles.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationCHI EA 2019 - Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
    ISBN (Electronic)9781450359719
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2 May 2019
    Event2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019: Weaving the threads of CHI - Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow, United Kingdom
    Duration: 4 May 20199 May 2019
    Conference number: 1
    https://chi2019.acm.org/

    Conference

    Conference2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2019
    Abbreviated titleCHI 2019
    Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
    CityGlasgow
    Period4/05/199/05/19
    Internet address

    Keywords

    • Automated Vehicles
    • Autonomous Vehicles
    • Interaction
    • Methodology
    • Pedestrian
    • Vehicle
    • Vulnerable Road Users
    • n/a OA procedure

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