Return to search

Understanding Road Use and Road User Interaction: An Exploratory Ethnographic Study Toward the Design of Autonomous Vehicles

This thesis contributes to research that informs the design of autonomous vehicles (AVs). It examines interactions among various types of road users, such as pedestrians and drivers, and describes how findings can contribute to the design of AVs. The work was undertaken as part of a research internship at Nissan Research Center-Silicon Valley on the Human Understanding in Design team. Methods included video ethnography “travel-alongs” which captured the experience of travel from the point of view of drivers and pedestrians, analysis of interaction patterns taken from video of intersections, and analysis of road laws. Findings address the implications of what it will mean for AVs to exist as social entities in a world of varied road contexts, and how AVs might navigate the social act of driving on roads they share with a variety of human users. This thesis contributes to an emerging body of research and application on the subject of the AV in the world.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc849632
Date05 1900
CreatorsMcLaughlin, Logan M.
ContributorsWasson, Christina, Henry, Doug, Wang, Xin
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvi, 65 pages : illustrations, Text
RightsPublic, McLaughlin, Logan M., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved.

Page generated in 0.0021 seconds