Deliverable 7.2. Report on methodology for balancing user acceptance, robustness and performance

The primary goal of this deliverable is to provide an overview of the methodology for acceptance testing that will be used during the tests conducted in T7.1, T7.2 and T7.3 within the PROSPECT project. The report starts with a description of the main characteristics of the most relevant accident scenarios where safety improvements are necessary. Among all use cases identified in WP3, twelve have been especially selected by the project to be implemented in the demonstrators: 9 for cyclists and 3 for pedestrians. Behaviours such as the velocity, distance and offset of the vehicle and cyclist are defined, so that the Safe Scenario, Critical Scenario and Possible Critical Scenario can be realized on the test tracks or in simulator environments. A literature review covering acceptance evaluation issues is then presented, outlining the questionnaires that are generally used to evaluate subjective measures, such as acceptance and trust. The methodology developed for Task 7.3 is then based on such questionnaires to be administered in tests and experiments that will evaluate PROSPECT systems. By using common questionnaires, this task facilitates an overall evaluation of the acceptance of all the developed functions. The methodology is presented in section 4 of this report, including a tool for data collection (LimeSurvey). This tool makes it possible for participants in evaluation studies to answer questions on various displays, to the convenience of the experimenters. In order to balance the user acceptance to the robustness and performance of the tested systems, all answers to the questionnaires will be linked to the PROSPECT functions tested and to the quality of the PROSPECT systems functioning. This methodology will be used at different times of the tests: before running a test/experiment (questionnaire 1 - participant information and questionnaire 3 - global expected acceptance of the system or a priori acceptability), during the test/experiment (questionnaire 2 - feedback on each situation) and after the test/experiment (questionnaire 3 - global acceptance of the system after having experienced it). At the end of this document, a section briefly describes all the experiments currently planned that will use the methodology within WP7. Their results will be reported in Deliverable 7.3 Report on simulator test results and driver acceptance of PROSPECT functions.