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A method to investigate drivers’ acceptance of Blind Spot Detection System®

Issue title: IEA 2012: 18th World congress on Ergonomics - Designing a sustainable future

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Piccinini, Giulio Francesco | Simões, Anabela | Rodrigues, Carlos Manuel | Leitão, Miguel

Affiliations: UNIVERSITAS, Cooperativa de Ensino Superior e Investigação Científica C.R.L., Alameda das Linhas de Torres 179, 1750-142, Lisboa, PORTUGAL | CIGEST, Instituto Superior de Gestão, Rua Vitorino Nemésio 5, 1750-306, Lisboa, PORTUGAL | Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias s/n, 4200-465, Porto, PORTUGAL | Departamento de Engenharia Electrotécnica, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida 431, 4200-072, Porto, PORTUGAL

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Keywords: ADAS, BLIS, acceptance, lane change, road safety

DOI: 10.3233/WOR-2012-0123-4213

Journal: Work, vol. 41, no. Supplement 1, pp. 4213-4217, 2012

Published: 2012
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Abstract

Lately, with the goal of improving road safety, car makers developed and commercialised some Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) which, through the detection of blind spot areas on the vehicle’s sides, could help the drivers during the overtaking and the change lane task. Despite the possible benefits to reduce lateral crashes, the overall impact on road safety of such systems have not been deeply studied yet; notably, despite some researches have been carried out, there is a lack of studies regarding the long-term usage and drivers’ acceptance of those systems. In order to fill the research gap, a methodology, based on the combination of focus groups interviews, questionnaires and a small-scale field operational test (FOT), has been designed in this study; such a methodology aims at evaluating drivers’ acceptance of Blind Spot Information System® and at proposing some ideas to improve the usability and user-friendliness of this (or similar) device in their future development.

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