Development and Evaluation of Comfort Assessment Approaches for Passengers in Autonomous Vehicles 2023-01-0788
Passenger comfort is a critical factor in user acceptance of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Despite existing methods for passenger comfort assessment, new approaches to assessing passenger comfort in AVs may be valuable to the automotive industry. In this paper, continuous pressing-based and discrete smartphone-based approaches for comfort assessment were designed and implemented in a user study. Participants used the two approaches to evaluate their comfort levels in an experimental study based on a high-fidelity autonomous driving simulator. Performances of the two approaches in assessing comfort levels were analyzed and compared. In general, the discrete approach showed better measurement repeatability and lower measurement bias than the continuous approach. The performance gap of the continuous approach could be reduced with proper post-processing measures. Discussions on the potential uses of the approaches were also raised.
Citation: Su, H., Brooks, J., and Jia, Y., "Development and Evaluation of Comfort Assessment Approaches for Passengers in Autonomous Vehicles," SAE Int. J. Adv. & Curr. Prac. in Mobility 5(6):2068-2077, 2023, https://doi.org/10.4271/2023-01-0788. Download Citation
Author(s):
Haotian Su, Johnell Brooks, Yunyi Jia
Affiliated:
Clemson University
Pages: 10
Event:
WCX SAE World Congress Experience
e-ISSN:
2641-9645
Also in:
SAE International Journal of Advances and Current Practices in Mobility-V132-99EJ
Related Topics:
Autonomous vehicles
Simulators
Comfort
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