Facing Failures. Interactions between Drivers and Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
Licentiate thesis, 2012

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, adopting an approach with a combination 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. With regard to human- machine-interaction it is concluded that ADAS have effects on driver’s behavior, that these effects are individual and based on experience, and that measures towards failure containment should be a taken.

driver behaviour

technical error

ADAS

simulator studies

human error

Meddelas senare
Opponent: Professor Håkan Alm

Author

Niklas Strand

Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Design and Human Factors

Interaction with and use of driver assistance systems: A study of end-user experiences

Proceedings of the 18th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, Orlando, FL, October 16-20, 2011,; (2011)

Paper in proceeding

Exploring end-user experiences: self-perceived notions on use of adaptive cruise control systems

IET Intelligent Transport Systems,; Vol. 5(2011)p. 134-140

Journal article

Areas of Advance

Transport

Subject Categories

Other Engineering and Technologies not elsewhere specified

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Opponent: Professor Håkan Alm

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10/6/2017