The next big change in the automotive domain will be the move towards automated and semiautomated driving. We can expect an increasing level of autonomous driving in the coming years, resulting in new opportunities for the car as an infotainment platform when standard driving tasks will be automated. This change also comes with a number of challenges to automotive user interfaces. Core challeng...

This paper combines experimental and field data to examine how authorities with discretion over how rules are enforced penalize transgressors when the social context of the transgression elicits expectations of leniency. Specifically, we test how transgressors are punished when it is their birthday: a day that triggers expectations of lenient treatment. First, in three scenario studies we explo...

As technologies for full self-driving automation in vehicles progress rapidly, human factors become more complicated, and it is more difficult to predict driver’s behaviour on the road, especially under the mixed-traffic condition. In this paper, we introduce an efficient framework for research on the interaction between human-driven physical vehicles and autonomous vehicles by integrating a tr...

There has been an increasing concern about inactive drivers who would easily lead to road accidents and fatalities once return to driving. This study investigated the re-usability of traffic signs for inactive drivers with consideration of driver factors and cognitive sign features. Fifty-seven Hong Kong Chinese, who possessed a full driving license but had not driven for an extended period, co...

In the United States, one in six teenagers has driven under the influence of marijuana. Driving under the influence of marijuana and alcohol is equally prevalent, despite the fact that marijuana use is less common than alcohol use. Much of the research examining the effects of marijuana on driving performance was conducted in the 1970s and led to equivocal findings. During that time, few studie...

With the development of automated driving technologies, human factors involved in are gaining increasing attention for a balanced implementation convenience brought by ...