Rebecca Currano

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Therapy for Therapists: Design Opportunities to Support the Psychological Well-being of Mental Health Workers

On-demand mental health services—including counseling, crisis hotlines, and peer support programs—are vital to the healthcare system, providing acute and ongoing support through telephone, online, and text-based communication. Although such services have proven effective at reducing hopelessness, psychological pain, a…

AUTO_UI '242nd AuthorAutomated Driving Interface & Takeover Design +1

Designing Visual Signals to Support Situation Awareness Recovery in Conditional Automated Driving

Conditionally automated driving systems face two main safety challenges: the inability to autonomously handle all situations the vehicle encounters, and the allowed inattention of drivers during these critical moments. Our study focuses on enhancing drivers’ situation awareness at such times by embedding information a…

AUTO_UI '241st AuthorAutomated Driving Interface & Takeover Design +1

Driven to Distraction: Exploring Mind Wandering During a Virtual Reality City Drive

Research has characterized mind-wandering as humans' natural mental state, with moments of task-focused attention being the exception. With this framing, mind-wandering while driving likely occurs more than generally acknowledged, and seems poised to increase with higher levels of automation. This in turn may have adv…

AUTO_UI '242nd AuthorConversational Chatbots +1

‘Talking with your Car’: Design of Human-Centered Conversational AI in Autonomous Vehicles

The Development of Fully Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) would fundamentally change the nature of in-vehicle user interactions, behaviors, needs, and activities. Passengers free from driving would expect to undertake diverse Non-Driving-Related Tasks to keep themselves occupied. Introducing Conversational Artificial Intelli…

CHI '211st AuthorHead-Up Display (HUD) & Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)

Little Road Driving HUD: Heads-Up Display Complexity Influences Drivers’ Perceptions of Automated Vehicles

Modern vehicles are using AI and increasingly sophisticated sensor suites to improve Advanced Driving Assistance Systems (ADAS) and support automated driving capabilities. Heads-Up-Displays (HUDs) provide an opportunity to visually inform drivers about vehicle perception and interpretation of the driving environment.…

HRI '202nd AuthorHonorable MentionExternal HMI (eHMI) — Communication with Pedestrians & Cyclists +2

On-Road and Online Studies to Investigate Beliefs and Behaviors of Netherlands, US and Mexico Pedestrians Encountering Hidden-Driver Vehicles

A growing number of studies use a “ghost-driver” vehicle driven by a person in a car seat costume to simulate an autonomous vehicle. Using a hidden-driver vehicle in a field study in the Netherlands, Study 1 (N = 130) confirmed that the ghostdriver methodology is valid in Europe and confirmed that European pedestrians…

HRI '202nd AuthorAutomated Driving Interface & Takeover Design +2

Defense Against the Dark Cars: Design Principles for Griefing of Autonomous Vehicles

As autonomous vehicles (AVs) become a reality on public roads, researchers and designers are beginning to see unexpected reactions from the public ranging from curiosity to vandalism. These behaviors are concerning, as AV platforms will need to know how to deal with people behaving unexpectedly or aggressively. We cal…

AUTO_UI '192nd AuthorExternal HMI (eHMI) — Communication with Pedestrians & Cyclists

The Case for Implicit External Human-Machine Interfaces for Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles' (AVs) interactions with pedestrians remain an ongoing uncertainty. Several studies have claimed the need for explicit external human-machine interfaces (eHMI) such as lights or displays to replace the lack of eye contact with and explicit gestures from drivers, however this need is not thoroughly…

AUTO_UI '192nd AuthorExternal HMI (eHMI) — Communication with Pedestrians & Cyclists

Visualizing Implicit eHMI for Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles' (AVs) interactions with pedestrians remain an ongoing uncertainty. Studies claim the need for explicit external human-machine interfaces (eHMI) such as lights to replace the lack of eye contact with and explicit gestures from drivers. To further explore this area, we conducted a naturalistic field…

AUTO_UI '181st AuthorExternal HMI (eHMI) — Communication with Pedestrians & Cyclists +1

¡Vamos! Observations of Pedestrian Interactions with Driverless Cars in Mexico

How will pedestrians from different regions interact with an ap- proaching autonomous vehicle? Understanding differences in pedestrian culture and response can help to inform autonomous cars how to behave appropriately in different regional contexts. We conducted a field study comparing the behavioral response of pede…

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