Workshop on Exploring Interfaces for Enhanced Automation Assistance for Improving Manual Driving Abilities

Abstract

With continually advancing automation capabilities in vehicles, there is increasing potential for these capabilities to be used not only as stopgaps towards full automation but to enhance humans’ manual driving capabilities during this transition phase and beyond. By employing smart automation assistance (e.g., highlighting of relevant roadside information, maneuver interventions and corrections), it might even be possible to enable automation assisted “manual” driving for those, who might not be able to drive otherwise (older adults, individuals with impairments). In this workshop, we intend to explore this problem together with the participants and identify potentials for automation assistance to enhance manual driving performance, and what in-vehicle interfaces can contribute in this regard.