TY - JOUR ID - Himanshu Verma, Florian Evéquoz, Guillaume Pythoud, Grace Eden, and Denis Lalanne. 2019. Engaging Pedestrians in Designing Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles. In Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI T1 - Engaging Pedestrians in Designing Interactions with Autonomous Vehicles A1 - Verma, Himanshu A1 - Evéquoz, Florian A1 - Pythoud, Guillaume A1 - Eden, Grace A1 - Lalanne, Denis JA - In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Y1 - 2019 SP - 126:1 EP - 126:6 UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3290607.3312864 M2 - doi: 10.1145/3290607.3312864 KW - autonomous vehicles (AVS) KW - AV-pedestrian interaction KW - co-design KW - communicating av intentions KW - public transport KW - urban mobility N2 - Driverless Passenger Shuttles are operating as a public transport alternative in the town of Sion, Switzerland since June'16, and traversing the populated commercial and residential zones of the city center. The absence of a human driver and the lack of dedicated AV-pedestrian interface makes it challenging for road users (pedestrians, cyclists, etc.) to understand the intent or operational state of the vehicle and negotiate road usage. In this article, we present a co-design study aimed at informing the design of interactive communication means between pedestrians and autonomous vehicles (AVs). Conducted in two stages with the local community --which is accustomed to the AV's ecosystem and has interacted with it on a daily basis-- the study highlights the interactive experiences of road users, and furnishes contextualized design guidelines to bridge the communication with the pedestrians. ER -