Exploring new concepts to create natural and trustful dialogue between humans and intelligent autonomous vehicles

Abstract

In recent years, research on autonomous cars had an ever-increasing spread, exploring many of the technological elements, the intelligence necessary to build hardware and connections, the limits linked to legislation and ethical aspects. The automotive field is rich of interior style solutions, but the topics linked to interaction design and digital user experience are relatively young and need a different approach. In fact, if the higher limits were considered the cognitive workload, the attention and the reaction times required by a still semi-automatic drive, what are the methods to follow in order to obtain an innovative user experience, that also considers the aspects of complexity and of personal digital connections? The presented case study aims to describe the methodological approach and the first concepts developed for the research project that studies an innovative interface system for an autonomous vehicle, able to travel both on the ground and in flight.