I'm Francesco Walker
I am a PhD student of
the University of Twente
with a background in cognitive psychology
I work on human interactions
with self-driving cars
with the main focus
on trust in automated vehicles
With the help
of the BMS Lab we are running, let's say,
a very interesting study in our driving simulator
so yeah just come with me and let's have a
My PhD is actually part of a very big project
called iCave and in iCave, not only the University
of Twente but also Delft University of Technology,
TU Eindhoven and Radboud University collaborate
together to develop a level four automated
vehicle, and that is a highly automated vehicle,
so, in other words, it's a car that is supposed
to handle the driving task in a very constrained
environment
We really investigate how the user
if you want to call it driver, say the
user an external road user such as cyclings
and pedestrians really experience this vehicle
on campus
Okay so here we have our driving simulator
So what we do here for this specific study
is we ask our participants to imagine being
in a self-driving car and our participants
view videos of the car behaving very well
on the road or very badly and very badly means
that the car tends to drift towards the centre
of the road but also breaks abruptly in front
of cyclists and pedestrians and what we do
is basically we measure participant's skin
conductance at all times and we also measure their eye movements
Actually the main point of this is
to try to find more reliable and
continuous measures of trust in automation
so what our participants do is let's say they
have the opportunity to perform a secondary
task at all times while viewing the video
and simply we check if their eye movements
go more to the secondary task or more towards the road depending on the condition
We have done this project without the BMS Lab
they were really helpful throught the entire
experiment and also you know they have all
this equipment available state of the art
eyetrackers all the measurements for physiology
and you know you can just send them an email
of your project and get them on board and
that's actually what happened
and it was really great
