Title
Ghost driver: a platform for investigating interactions between pedestrians and driverless vehicles
Abstract
How will pedestrians and cyclists interact with self-driving cars when there is no human driver? To find answers to this question we need a secure experimental design in which pedestrians can interact with a car that appears to drive on its own. In Ghost Driver we staged a fake autonomous car by installing LIDARs, cameras and decals on the outside of the vehicle and by covering the driver with a seat costume so that it appeared that there was no driver in the car. In initial field studies we found that this Wizard-of-Oz technique convinced more than 80% of the participants that the car was driving autonomously without a driver. Consequently the Ghost Driver methodology could become a platform for further investigation of how pedestrians or cyclists interact with driverless vehicles.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2809730.2809755
AutomotiveUI (adjunct)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Autonomous Vehicles, Self-Driving Vehicles, Pedestrians, Cars, Wizard-of-Oz, Human-Robot-Interaction, H.1.2. User/Machine Systems
Simulation,Installation,Human–computer interaction,Engineering,Human–robot interaction,Wizard of oz
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.70
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dirk Rothenbücher1223.04
Jamy Li215617.28
David Sirkin319526.80
Brian K. Mok410016.10
Wendy Ju543555.27