Autonomous Vehicles

Problem

Duration: 3 months

Self-driving cars have become an interesting topic that being discussed today. People wants a car being smarter and user friendly creating a demand for artificial intelligence in cars. Tv show car like KITT, are now are bing discussing today when designer persona was being made.

Therefore, we are going to use personas, scenarios, and storyboards to discover the potential interactions between vehicles and driver.

Group: Prof. Brian O'Keefe | Jean Chang | Genevieve Quiban

My Role: Idea Generation, Research Paper Writing, Storyboarding, UX Research, Stakeholder Presentation, Role Play, User Testing, Sketching.

Method/Tool: Illustration, Interview, Microsoft Word, Pen, Paper, and Camera.

Storyboards, personas & Scenarios

Mr. Hamptonite

Driver:
- Wealthy wall street banker.
- Always keeping up with news of stock market.
- Have very busy schedule and does not have time for family.
- Like to be successful and do everything efficiently.
Customer Relationship
- System need to learn driver’s behavior, so many tasks would be automatic or hidden from the driver.
- The vehicle need to connect to his mobile.

Expressway Madman

Driver :
- Generation Y, 21 years old young man.
- Does not think about long term.
- Like to speed in heavy traffic.
- Time managing is irresponsible.
- Often late for work.
- He has a bad driving record.
Customer Relationships
- The system needs to affect personalization, recklessness, and technical creativity.
- The service of the vehicle must have a speed limit.
- Vehicle will switch to self-driving mode if speeding limit goes above.
- The system will keep updating the latest police traps.
- The State Court will order the speeding driver to drive on the self-driving car.

User Journal

JOURNEY MAP

Ms. Robinsons is a very busy women with four kids. She is always running around for her kids' school actives. She is very frustrated because she did not have enough time to do all of the things at once. Since she has Autonomous vehicles, it is not only helps her bring the kids to different actives or events but also take good care of her kids while they are on the road. Now she can have time for herself but also have a vehicle that can take care of her kids' school actives or events.

Research papaer

Presentation

I went to a workshop called "Setting the Stage with Metaphors for Interaction-Researching Methodological Approaches for interaction Design of Autonomous Vehicles on DIS (Designing Interaction Systems) conference on 2017". We presented our research on the workshop and we got a great feedback from everyone there.

Learning

What type of relationship for autonomous vehicle and its owner?

During this workshop, we discussed different types of relationship that we should gave to the autonomous vehicle and driver. Should it be team player? pilot and autopilot? or The operator? or dog and owner supervisor? or private chauffeur? or driving student? or something else? There are many different assumptions, each one are interested, but it all depends on the situation. and the purpose of driving the autonomous vehicle.

I am glad I did the research paper, and attend the workshop with autonomous vehicle. I learned that autonomous vehicle not just a robot that we used to to created, it needs different personality, and character in order to fit with the variety scenarios and situation. Although there is no personality that was given to the vehicle yet, but I am looking forward what autonomous vehicle can be in the future.

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