Anthropomorphic Voice Agent

Significantly increases

Description

• Providing the passenger with the autonomous vehicle’s perception via voice and allowing them to ask questions can increase the user experience and perceived feeling of control of the ride.
• Interact with the autonomous vehicle via an anthropomorphic voice agent using conversational language.
• "For example, the [autonomous vehicle] abruptly stopped, claiming to have detected a pedestrian in the road ahead, and informed the [passenger] that the journey would resume once the pedestrian had moved;”

Examples

How to Evaluate

Sources

Large, David R., et al. "To please in a pod: employing an anthropomorphic agent-interlocutor to enhance trust and user experience in an autonomous, self-driving vehicle." Proceedings of the 11th international conference on automotive user interfaces and interactive vehicular applications. 2019.

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