Research Article

Improving Usefulness of Automated Driving by Lowering Primary Task Interference through HMI Design

Table 6

ANOVA results: usefulness and visual workload.

Dependent variableEffect

Usefulness of HUDHMI condition1155.15.0380.26
HMI condition sequence1152.54.1320.14
Driving situation2300.51.6030.03
Driving situation sequence2300.97.3900.06
HMI condition driving situation2301.46.2490.09
HMI condition driving situation sequence2300.73.4920.05
Sequence1150.01.9310.00

Usefulness of auditory output
HMI condition1151.81.1990.11
HMI condition sequence1150.06.8120.00
Driving situation2301.67.2060.10
Driving situation sequence2300.69.5110.04
HMI condition driving situation2303.36.0480.18
HMI condition driving situation sequence2300.11.8970.01
Sequence1159.96.0070.40

Visual workloadHMI condition11511.42.0040.43
HMI condition sequence1153.52.0800.19
Driving situation2302.23.1250.13
Driving situation sequence2301.32.2830.08
HMI condition driving situation2300.34.7170.02
HMI condition driving situation sequence2301.42.2580.09
Sequence1151.26.2790.08