Examining Takeover Responses Using Non-Dominant Hand in Automated Vehicles
Disciplines
Cognitive Psychology
Abstract (300 words maximum)
This study examined how hand dominance influences a participant’s evasive steering direction to an automated vehicle’s (AV) silent failure at a T-intersection. Participants were instructed to manually take control of the AV using their non-dominant hand. Researchers analyzed in which direction the participants steered the vehicle. We hypothesized that participants using their non-dominant hand would steer to the right to avoid a collision at a T-intersection, mainly due to Western cultural factors in everyday tasks that ultimately influence one’s hand movements and directional preferences. To test this hypothesis, we administered a virtual reality driving simulator study where participants monitored an AV, and the researchers observed the direction they steered, using their non-dominant hand, during a take-over response, as a result from a silent failure. We are currently collecting the data.
Keywords: automated vehicles, take-over response, silent failure
Academic department under which the project should be listed
RCHSS - Psychological Science
Primary Investigator (PI) Name
Kyung Hun Jung
Examining Takeover Responses Using Non-Dominant Hand in Automated Vehicles
This study examined how hand dominance influences a participant’s evasive steering direction to an automated vehicle’s (AV) silent failure at a T-intersection. Participants were instructed to manually take control of the AV using their non-dominant hand. Researchers analyzed in which direction the participants steered the vehicle. We hypothesized that participants using their non-dominant hand would steer to the right to avoid a collision at a T-intersection, mainly due to Western cultural factors in everyday tasks that ultimately influence one’s hand movements and directional preferences. To test this hypothesis, we administered a virtual reality driving simulator study where participants monitored an AV, and the researchers observed the direction they steered, using their non-dominant hand, during a take-over response, as a result from a silent failure. We are currently collecting the data.
Keywords: automated vehicles, take-over response, silent failure