Improve Situation Awareness in Highly Automated Driving through Restorative Means

With the advent of semi-automated vehicles, travelers are engaged in an increasing amount of non-driving-related tasks, such as entertainment, work, and relaxation. Immersion in such in-car activities leads to a drop in the situation awareness of surrounding environments. How to design a smooth process of notification concerning the upcoming dangers on roads to arouse the awareness back to the outside roads during the immersive user experience? This work tries to address the problem by exploring how to transfer the mapping of dangers in nature into the mapping of dangers on roads.

• Literature review of the danger perception in nature and the situation awareness on roads
• Setting up an AR notification system

• Interests in automotive user interfaces
• Experiences in AR