Articles by Nancy Hughes

author photoDr. Hughes has worked as both a Research Fellow and Design Researcher predominantly within academia (Human Factors, University of Nottingham) but also commercially. She has experience working with governmental and industry partners across a variety of areas, including transport/intelligent mobility, "Smart" cities, healthcare, and dynamic lighting/wayfinding.

Deriving Personas to Inform HMI Design for Future Autonomous Taxis: A Case Study on User Requirement Elicitation

Abstract Automated Vehicle Mobility-as-a-Service (AV MaaS)—or autonomous taxis—are expected to offer an inexpensive, mobility-on-demand service supporting greater sustainable transportation systems, including “last mile” solutions. However, to date, little is understood about how different people, whose needs and requirements may vary considerably, will best be supported to use these vehicles when there is no human driver/operative […] [Read More]