interACT D.4.1. Preliminary interaction strategies for the interACT Automated Vehicles

Kurzfassung

As Automated Vehicles (AVs) will be deployed in mixed traffic, they need to interact safely and efficiently with other traffic participants (TPs). The interACT project is working towards this safe integration of AVs into mixed traffic environments. In its Work Package (WP) 4, the interACT project aims to develop overall interaction strategies to govern the interaction between the AV and the on-board user, as well as between the AV and other traffic participants in the surrounding. This document is the first deliverable of WP 4 and presents the overall objectives of the WP, the design process and the preliminary interaction strategies for the four interACT must-have use cases which have been selected in WP 1. The interaction strategies are described in detail by specifying what kind of information should be transferred by the AV to its on-board user and to other traffic participants in the surrounding. interACT partners developed three design variants of the interaction strategies in an iterative design process. These variants are the environment perception based design, the intention based design and a combination of these two. Finally, the document describes the next steps in WP 4. These are the design of HMI and eHMI elements and the set-up of HMI and external HMI (eHMI) prototypes for the interACT project. In addition, the preliminary interaction strategies are tested in user studies, further refined and extended towards further and more complex scenarios.