Managing Human Factors in Automated Vehicle Development: Towards Challenges and Practices
Paper in proceeding, 2023

Due to the technical complexity and social impact, automated vehicle (AV) development challenges the current state of automotive engineering practice. Research shows that it is important to consider human factors (HF) knowledge when developing AVs to make them safe and accepted. This study explores the current practices and challenges of the automotive industries for incorporating HF requirements during agile AV development. We interviewed ten industry professionals from several Swedish automotive companies, including HF experts and AV engineers. Based on our qualitative analysis of the semi-structured interviews, a number of current approaches for communicating and incorporating HF knowledge into agile AV development and associated challenges are discussed. Our findings may help to focus future research on issues that are critical to effectively incorporate HF knowledge into agile AV development.

Automated Vehicles

Agile Development

Human Factors

Requirements Engineering

Author

Amna Pir Muhammad

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

University of Gothenburg

Eric Knauss

Chalmers, Computer Science and Engineering (Chalmers), Interaction Design and Software Engineering

University of Gothenburg

Jonas Bärgman

Chalmers, Mechanics and Maritime Sciences (M2), Vehicle Safety

Alessia Knauss

Zenseact AB

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering

1090705X (ISSN) 23326441 (eISSN)

Vol. 2023-September 347-352
9798350326895 (ISBN)

31st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2023
Hannover, Germany,

Supporting the interaction of Humans and Automated vehicles: Preparing for the Environment of Tomorrow (Shape-IT)

European Commission (EC) (EC/H2020/860410), 2019-10-01 -- 2023-09-30.

Subject Categories

Software Engineering

Robotics

DOI

10.1109/RE57278.2023.00047

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