Automated vehicles (AVs) promise to enhance driver comfort and wellbeing, and ultimately, deliver ‘mobility for all’.

Near-future AVs will create a new, driver-vehicle symbiosis in which both human and non-human agents must work together in pursuit of a common goal. Understanding this relationship and ensuring the appropriate allocation of trust is therefore paramount, particularly during the transfer of control.

 

The project aims to use existing datasets supported by relevant theory and apply multi-disciplinary methods to design an exemplar, socially responsible, anthropomorphised, natural language interface, encompassing both lexical and non-lexical mediators of trust, and curating findings in a preliminary design framework.

Project Team

Meet Our Project Team

Gary Burnett

Gary Burnett

Professor of Transport Human Factors, University of Nottingham

Lead contact

Paurav Shukla

Professor of Marketing and Head of Digital and Data-Driven Management Department, University of Southampton

Co-Investigator

Joel Fischer

Associate Professor, University of Nottingham

Co-Investigator

Katie Plant

Lecturer in Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton

Co-Investigator
Elena Nichele

Elena Nichele

University of Nottingham

Research Fellow
Maria Galvez Trigo

Maria Galvez Trigo

University of Nottingham

Research Fellow
Jediah Clark

Jediah Clark

University of Southampton

Research Fellow
David Large

David Large

University of Nottingham

Research Fellow
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