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Navigating in the Dark – Designing Autonomous Driving Features to Assist Old Adults with Visual Impairments
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2023-02-01
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Abstract:Age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of blindness worldwide and is one of many limitations to independent driving among old adults. Highly autonomous vehicles present a prospective solution for those who are no longer capable of driving due to low vision. However, accessibility issues must be addressed to create a safe and pleasant experience for this group of users so that it allows them to maintain an appropriate level of situational awareness and a sense of control during driving. In this study, we made use of a human-centered design process consisting of five stages - empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. We designed a prototype to aid old adults with age-related macular degeneration to travel with a necessary level of situational awareness and remain in control while riding in a highly or fully autonomous vehicle. The final design prototype includes a voice-activated navigation system with three levels of details to bolster situational awareness, a 360 degree in-vehicle camera to detect both the passenger and objects around the vehicle, a retractable microphone for the passenger to be easily registered in the vehicle while speaking, and a physical button on the console-side of the right and left front seats to manually activate the navigation system.
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Content Notes:This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Please cite this article as: Bynum, L., Parker, J., Lee, K., Nitschke, N., LaFlam, M., Marcussen, J., Taleb, J., Dogan, A., Molnar, L.J., Avetisyan, L., and Zhou, F. (2023). Navigating in the dark--designing autonomous driving features to assist old adults with visual impairments. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.00499
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