With the rapid advancement of autonomous vehicles, a transformative transportation paradigm is emerging in the automotive industry, necessitating a re-evaluation of how users engage with and utilize these evolving settings. This research paper introduces an innovative interaction system tailored for shared autonomous vehicles, focusing on its development and comprehensive evaluation. The proposed system uses the car’s windshield as an interactive display surface, enabling infotainment and real-time information about the surrounding environment. The integration of two gesture-based interfaces forms a central component of the system. Through a study involving twenty subjects, we analyzed and compared the user experience facilitated by these interfaces. The study outcomes demonstrated that the subjects exhibited similar behaviors and responses across both interfaces, thus validating the potential of these interaction systems for future autonomous vehicles. These findings collectively emphasize the transformative nature of the proposed system and its ability to enhance user engagement and interaction within the context of autonomous transportation.

Automated shuttle buses entail adopting new technologies and modifying users’ practices, cultural and symbolic meanings, policies, and markets. This results in a paradigmatic transition for a typical sociotechnical system: the transport system. However, the focus of the extant literature often lacks an overall vision, addressing a single technology, supply chain, or societal dimension. Although systemic design can manage multiple-level and long-term transitions, the literature does not discuss how systemic design tools can support implementation. This paper takes the four strategies proposed by Pereno and Barbero in 2020 as the theoretical framework to fill this literature gap, discussing the specific systemic design methods applicable to the design of automated shuttle bus systems. A six-week workshop to facilitate the exploration of future autonomous public transportation is taken as a case study. The systemic design approach was applied to enrich the Human–Machine Interaction (HMI) and functional architecture of automated shuttle buses.

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Cities today can be regarded as living bodies, in which physical and digital realities overlap each other, changing the way users experience both private and shared spaces in their everyday life. The widespread application of web-based technologies enables the creation of affordable platforms and multi-modal transport apps. This enables the creation of on-demand services which empower travellers by giving them access to a range of efficient vehicles and flexible solutions for multi-modal mobility. As a natural evolution of this data-fuelled interactive reality, vehicles are gradually evolving into connected ‘mobile spaces’ in which the software and the Internet of Things (IoT) become strategic design factors, and occupants totally or partially forego the role of driving, by relying on onboard Artificial Intelligence (AI). This digital ‘brain’ is designed to continuously exchange information with the surrounding built environment, and make key decisions accordingly. Looking at future mobility scenarios of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs), passengers’ attention will no longer be focused on any driving task. This constitutes an unprecedented opportunity to re-think the primary role of fully autonomous interiors from scratch. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated existing trends in the fields of remote working, automation, e-commerce, and transport. This has destabilised well-established travel habits changed preferences, values and expectations in the field of mobility and vehicle design. The chapter provides key recommendations for the next generation Avs, which are founded on human-centred research and design principles rather than on the systematic implementation of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The conducted research outputs involved both final users and experts’ insights to better understand and respond to travellers’ lifestyles, needs and desires for the post-pandemic urban environment. This represents the latest challenge that society faces in the multifaceted area of smart mobility, which requires new cross-disciplinary approaches to design thinking and concept development.