SAFIR IP6 "MIRASOFT" at the AutomotiveUI' 22 Conference in Seoul, South Korea

Impulse project 6 ("MIRASOFT") deals with safe automated mobility, both with regard to vulnerable road users such as pedestrians and cyclists, and with the question of how drivers of automated vehicles can be supported in the interior by means of augmented reality (AR) display concepts to ensure safe interactions with other road users. Researchers Jakob Peintner and Carina Manger from the SAFIR IP6 project and the Human-Computer Interaction Group (Prof. Andreas Riener) presented the results of their research from the last year of the project to an international audience of experts at the AutomotiveUI 2022 conference in Seoul (title of the paper: "Can you rely on me? Evaluating a Confidence HMI for Cooperative, Automated Driving") [1]. The underlying study was conducted in a mobile driving simulator at the Landesgartenschau 2021 in Ingolstadt. This setting made it possible to recruit study participants from a wide range of age and occupational groups. The test persons were presented with variants of display concepts in which decisions of the automated vehicle were shown with a confidence level. The aim was to find out how an increased information content affects the confidence in the automated vehicle and the driver's situational awareness. In addition, SAFIR staff member and PhD student Carina Manger was invited as a participant to the panel "Women in AutoUI", in which female researchers from the automotive sector in different positions in their careers exchanged views on obstacles, opportunities and the most important motivating factors.

[1] Jakob Benedikt Peintner, Carina Manger, and Andreas Riener. 2022. “Can you rely on me?” Evaluating a Confidence HMI for Cooperative, Automated Driving. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 340–348. doi.org/10.1145/3543174.3546976