Exploring Personalised Autonomous Vehicles to Influence User Trust

Trust is a major determinant of acceptance of an autonomous vehicle (AV), and a lack of appropriate trust could prevent drivers and society in general from taking advantage of such technology. This paper makes a new attempt to explore the effects of personalised AVs as a novel approach to the cognit...

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Published in:Cognitive computation 2020-11, Vol.12 (6), p.1170-1186
Main Authors: Sun, Xu, Li, Jingpeng, Tang, Pinyan, Zhou, Siyuan, Peng, Xiangjun, Li, Hao Nan, Wang, Qingfeng
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial Intelligence
Automation
Autonomous vehicles
Computation by Abstract Devices
Computational Biology/Bioinformatics
Computer Science
Customization
Human error
Technology adoption
Trustworthiness
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Summary:Trust is a major determinant of acceptance of an autonomous vehicle (AV), and a lack of appropriate trust could prevent drivers and society in general from taking advantage of such technology. This paper makes a new attempt to explore the effects of personalised AVs as a novel approach to the cognitive underpinnings of drivers’ trust in AVs. The personalised AV system is able to identify the driving behaviours of users and thus adapt the driving style of the AV accordingly. A prototype of a personalised AV was designed and evaluated in a lab-based experimental study of 36 human drivers, which investigated the impact of the personalised AV on user trust when compared with manual human driving and non-personalised AVs. The findings show that a personalised AV appears to be significantly more reliable through accepting and understanding each driver’s behaviour, which could thereby increase a user’s willingness to trust the system. Furthermore, a personalised AV brings a sense of familiarity by making the system more recognisable and easier for users to estimate the quality of the automated system. Personalisation parameters were also explored and discussed to support the design of AV systems to be more socially acceptable and trustworthy.
ISSN:1866-9956
1866-9964
DOI:10.1007/s12559-020-09757-x