Unravelling User Perspectives on Automated Urban Air Mobility: A Virtual Reality Approach

Lenart Motnikar; Marlen Jachek; Lukas  Kröninger; Michael Gafert; Alexander Mirnig; Viktoria Sandor; Samuel Lesak; Arno Fallast; Peter Fröhlich

doi:10.1145/3581961.3609850

Unravelling User Perspectives on Automated Urban Air Mobility: A Virtual Reality Approach

Lenart Motnikar (Speaker), Marlen Jachek, Lukas Kröninger, Michael Gafert, Alexander Mirnig, Viktoria Sandor, Samuel Lesak, Arno Fallast, Peter Fröhlich

FH Joanneum University of Applied Sciences

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Abstract

To address future mobility needs, Urban Air Mobility (UAM) is emerging as a new transport concept, integrating electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) vehicles into existing transport networks. However, despite significant investment and advances in the technology, potential adopters remain sceptical towards it, with safety, environmental concerns, and practicality presenting the most pressing issues. As several barriers hinder real-life testing of possible solutions, virtual reality (VR) offers a practical tool to explore some of the emerging issues. This demonstration simulates an airport-to-city UAM shuttle, presenting three scenarios with variable weather, cabin interfaces, and abnormal events in a high-fidelity representation of a potential use case. As such, it provides a groundwork for future exploration of UAM acceptance factors in VR studies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	317-319
Number of pages	3
ISBN (Print)	9798400701122
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3581961.3609850
Publication status	Published - 18 Sept 2023
Event	15th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2023) - Ingolstadt, Germany Duration: 18 Sept 2023 → 22 Sept 2023 https://www.auto-ui.org/23/

Conference

Conference	15th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2023)
Abbreviated title	AutomotiveUI 2023
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Ingolstadt
Period	18/09/23 → 22/09/23
Internet address	https://www.auto-ui.org/23/

Research Field

Former Research Field - Capturing Experience
Experience Business Transformation

Keywords

advanced urban air mobility
air taxi
virtual reality
automation

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Motnikar, L., Jachek, M., Kröninger, L., Gafert, M., Mirnig, A., Sandor, V., Lesak, S., Fallast, A., & Fröhlich, P. (2023). Unravelling User Perspectives on Automated Urban Air Mobility: A Virtual Reality Approach. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (pp. 317-319). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/3581961.3609850

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Motnikar, L, Jachek, M , Kröninger, L , Gafert, M , Mirnig, A , Sandor, V, Lesak, S, Fallast, A & Fröhlich, P 2023, Unravelling User Perspectives on Automated Urban Air Mobility: A Virtual Reality Approach. in Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 317-319, 15th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI 2023), Ingolstadt, Germany, 18/09/23. https://doi.org/10.1145/3581961.3609850

Unravelling User Perspectives on Automated Urban Air Mobility: A Virtual Reality Approach. / Motnikar, Lenart (Speaker); Jachek, Marlen ; Kröninger, Lukas et al.
Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2023. p. 317-319.

Research output: Chapter in Book or Conference Proceedings › Conference Proceedings with Oral Presentation

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