2025/06/05 by Luca-Maxim Meinhardt, Enrico Rukzio, Meinhardt, Luca-Maxim +1
Computer Science · Neuroscience · Psychology · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Gaze Tracking and Assistive Technology #Human-Automation Interaction and Safety #Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC) #Tactile and Sensory Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2507.18880
openalex publication_date 2025/06/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Highly Automated Vehicles (HAVs) can improve mobility for blind and visually impaired people (BVIPs). However, designing non-visual interfaces that enable them to maintain situation awareness inside the vehicle is a challenge. This paper presents two of our participatory design workshops that explored what information BVIPs need in HAVs and what an interface that meets these needs might look like. Based on the participants' insights, we created final systems to improve their situation awareness. The two workshops used different approaches: in the first, participants built their own low-fidelity prototypes; in the second, they evaluated and discussed the initial prototypes we provided. We will outline how each workshop was set up and share lessons learned about prototyping methods for BVIPs and how they could be improved.