From Human Computer Interaction to Human Systems Migration: Internal Interaction in Automated Road Vehicles

Vehicle automation has evolved from early systems, like cruise control, to more advanced technologies requiring deeper exploration and understanding of human-automation interaction and Human Systems Integration. Initially, research focused on human-computer interaction, but it later shifted towards a dynamic cooperation between humans and machines. As vehicle automation levels will vary in the future from partially to highly and fully automated systems, new safety concerns arise. These are particularly relevant for transitions of systems between automation levels and migrations of humans and technology between different configurations of the socio-technical systems. This paper describes a work-in-progress in the German DFG-project MiRoVA (Migration of Road Vehicle Automation), especially subproject 4, which focuses on internal interaction in the vehicles, e.g. between the automation and the driver. In this subproject we aim to address gaps in understanding the impact of automation migration on human-machine interaction. The focus is to explore how changes in automation levels affect human-machine cooperation and HMI design. This paper presents the fundamental aspect of human systems migration of vehicle automation, followed by resulting goals and the research concept created to investigate the impact of automation migration on human-machine interaction in human-in-the-loop simulations of traffic systems.