On-Campus Autonomous
A conceptual interaction design for on - campus autonomous shuttle of Illinois Institute of Technology
Project Background
Robotics lab at Illinois Institute of Technology has conducted in-depth tests and research on the navigation functions of autonomous vehicles. The research project uses radar sensing technology to scan the surrounding environment in order to generate maps. This emerging technology provides the self-driving car industry with road testing on the main campus of IIT. Since the laboratory obtain the valuable research data of the campus. We decided to design a self-driving school shuttle for the IIT campus, and create an unique experience concept.
Challenge & Outcome
How to design the functions of an autonomous shuttle in a specific campus setting? Especially when the average on-road time is less than 5 minutes, what are the real needs of users? What features can improve user experience? Through the process of user research, ideation, definition and visualization, we proposed an interaction system suitable for autonomous school shuttle on campus.
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BOOKING TRIPS & PREFERENCE SETTING
- Importing class schedules and add personal routines makes daily commute easily.
- Anytime to modify upcoming trips to provide conviencience.
- Notification in many ways to make passengers clear.
- Options for personalizing in-car environment let the whole trip chill.
Schedule with student account
Different from normal trip booking APP, we provide routine commute options based on students' class schedules.
Modify commute in a few steps
Finding the pre-set commutes in the clear layout of daily schedule makes the fixed shuttle bus more flexible.
MULTIPLE WAYS TO INFORM UPCOMING COMMUTE
Dynamic information displayed in Apple Widgets and pop-up notification of informing the trip in advance give passengers a shortcut to understand what’s going on right now.
IN-CAR ENVIRONMENT SETTING
Not only can select prefered seats before getting in, but also be able to adjust temperature and set favourite playlists.
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VERIFY SHUTTLE INFO & CHECK TRIPS
Shuttle can only recognize you when you verify your identity by tapping your ID card; however, you can easily understand which one is yours and get started quickly.
The outside screen will display evey information you need to take off.
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ENJOY YOUR TRIP & EMERGENCY CONTROL
Combining the shuttle with IIT campus website + Chicago crime data + IIT alert to provide safe and joyful in-car experience for students.
Next Step
Rating Function
For students to better understand about the vehicles. For managers to clean and maintain in time.
Intelligent Carpool
With the increase in demand and data collection, vehicles will use AI to calculate the same routes of their peers to increase traffic efficiency in the future.
Multi-function for campus activities
Temporarily idle vehicles may be dispatched to some campus activities as public facilities. (eg. road blocker, sound, etc.)
