Safety & Privacy in Urban Air Mobility (UAM) - A User Centric Design Approach Providing Insights into People´s Preferences for UAM Cabin Designs

Kurzfassung

In Urban Air Mobility UAM, the social acceptance is widely assumed to play an essential role for future development activities in this field. Since passengers will spend most of their trips inside the cabin area, the desire for safety and privacy within the cabin might have a substantial impact on people’s opinions about UAM vehicles. In order to involve the user feedback into the early design process, an online survey was initiated, resulting in 202 valid datasets of participants from various demographic groups in Germany. Within the study, six UAM cabin designs were presented and evaluated by the participants focusing privacy and security aspects. In this paper, the methodological structure and the results of the study are presented and provide an importa