

With rapidly increasing system functionalities, there is an urgent need to consider appropriate Human-machine interfaces (HMIs) to communicate system states via auditory, visual, and haptic elements and also to let the user interact with these systems through the same modalities. This work contributes to method development for the evaluation of ADS by proposing two alternative approaches of user education and their implications for both application in realistic settings and HMI testing.Īutomated driving development is flourishing at the present time. Results show that both the owner’s manual and an interactive tutorial led to an increased understanding of driving automation systems as well as an increased interaction performance. Using a between-subjects design, N = 24 participants complete one training prior to interacting with the ADS HMI in a driving simulator. These approaches are investigated by comparing them to a baseline consisting of generic information about the system function. The present work outlines the conceptual development of two possible approaches of user education which are the owner’s manual and an interactive tutorial. Apart from testing automated driving features and human–machine interfaces (HMI), the development and evaluation of training for interacting with driving automation has been largely neglected. Automated driving systems (ADS) and a combination of these with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) will soon be available to a large consumer population.
