EMMI: Empathic Human-Machine Interaction for Establishing Trust in Automated Driving

Highly automated vehicles represent one of the most crucial development efforts in the automotive industry. In addition to the use of research vehicles, production vehicles for the general public are realistic in the near future. However, to fully exploit the benefits of these systems, it is fundamental that users have an appropriate level of trust in automation. Recent studies indicate that more research is needed in this area. Furthermore, beyond the management of user trust, the system should also convey a perceptible added value to realize not only trust, but also acceptance and thus use. The EMMI project pushes both, the management of user trust while conveying added value to the user. Therefore, an advanced socio-emotional user model for estimating user trust and various user-centered HMI systems with unique UX are being developed. Together, the systems are employed to induce changes in the users' trust in automated vehicles.