How do we communicate with the autonomous vehicles and robots of the future?

Purpose and goal:

In this project, we want to explore how humans can interact and communicate with autonomous vehicles and robots. What challenges and opportunities will arise in a future where we have autonomous vehicles and robots all around us in everyday life? The goal is to create discussion, engage, and evoke emotions by allowing people to interact with an autonomous vehicle from the future.

Expected results and effects:

The project is expected to promote discussion about human interaction with vehicles and robots in future sustainable mobility systems. Insights from the project can also help both companies, municipalities, as well as developers, designers, and decision-makers to begin to understand how future autonomous solutions can become a well-functioning part of society.

Approach and implementation:

Through interviews with people of different backgrounds, genders, and ages, we will investigate how people intuitively could and would like to communicate and interact with an autonomous vehicle. Our future prototype will be the interface, the language between human and machine. At the end of the project, we will have integrated parts of this language into a vehicle´s autonomous system and then allow the public to interact with the vehicle.