TY - JOUR
T1 - An Accessible Autonomous Vehicle Ridesharing Ecosystem
AU - Carvalho, Stephen
AU - Gluck, Aaron
AU - Quinn, Daniel
AU - Zhang, Mengyuan
AU - Li, Lingyuan
AU - Groves, Kimberly
AU - Brinkley, Julian
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by Human Factors and Ergonoics Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Autonomous ridesharing vehicles provide a potential alternative and affordable mode of transportation for older adults and users with disabilities or special needs, but relatively few studies have investigated the accessibility of autonomous ridesharing applications and vehicles for them. Therefore, a participatory design approach was used to investigate the needs and challenges of this population. This investigation involved interviews, review of past focus group transcripts, literature reviews, and surveys. The findings resulted in a list of user needs to design and build prototypes of accessible technologies as part of an ecosystem for booking and riding in autonomous ridesharing vehicles. The ecosystem of technologies consisted of prototypes of a mobile application, a web application, an in-vehicle human-machine interface, an external human-machine interface, and the vehicle interior design.
AB - Autonomous ridesharing vehicles provide a potential alternative and affordable mode of transportation for older adults and users with disabilities or special needs, but relatively few studies have investigated the accessibility of autonomous ridesharing applications and vehicles for them. Therefore, a participatory design approach was used to investigate the needs and challenges of this population. This investigation involved interviews, review of past focus group transcripts, literature reviews, and surveys. The findings resulted in a list of user needs to design and build prototypes of accessible technologies as part of an ecosystem for booking and riding in autonomous ridesharing vehicles. The ecosystem of technologies consisted of prototypes of a mobile application, a web application, an in-vehicle human-machine interface, an external human-machine interface, and the vehicle interior design.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139516019&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/1071181321651227
DO - 10.1177/1071181321651227
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85139516019
SN - 1071-1813
VL - 65
SP - 342
EP - 346
JO - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
JF - Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
IS - 1
T2 - 65th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, HFES 2021
Y2 - 3 October 2021 through 8 October 2021
ER -