Compass

Increasing trust in the car. The majority of potential users express high level of concern about riding in autonomous vehicles. Reasons for this are safety issues related to technology failure and not trusting a self-driving vehicle as well as a human driver (Schoettle & Sivak, 2014).

By the means of light. Light is a useful medium for providing information on the state of a system. It can provide subtle feed forward as well as attention-grabbing effects, making it a very suitable medium for providing peripheral information (Aliakseyeu, Meerbeek, Mason, Magielse & Seitinger, 2016).

How it works. Via peripheral view of the user, feed forward is provided to inform passengers what nearby traffic is being observed by the car and what actions will be taken next.

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Prototyping for user test
Poster
Final prototype (after user testing)
Final design