Question
How do culturally shaped driving practices affect what people expect from other road users-and what should autonomous vehicles learn from those differences?
Driving Interaction / VR study / cross-cultural HRI
How people drive differently across cultures
A comparative VR study investigated how drivers in New York City and Israel interpret and respond to the same road interactions.
Method
The study used a VR driving simulation with 26 participants in New York City and 52 in Israel, paired with in-situ survey measures.
Implication
Driving behavior is a social language. Vehicle systems designed for one place may be misread in another, making cultural context an important input to interaction design.
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