The Citizen Test Process in Virtual Gothenburg Lab: Involvement in city development through the digital twin of Gothenburg
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Program
Industrial design engineering (MPDES), MSc
Publicerad
2021
Författare
Schulz, Matilda
Sundbom, Victoria
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The need to understand and analyse changes in city development is increasing in
order to develop sustainable cities. Autonomous vehicles will be more common in
shared spaces in the near future which results in challenges in the meeting between
autonomous vehicles and pedestrians. In order to test future traffic scenarios where
autonomous vehicles are involved, digital twins can be used as a tool, and Gothen burg City is currently developing their own digital twin parallel with the test bed
Virtual Gothenburg Lab. In order to include the human perspective in digital tests
with autonomous vehicles, citizens can be involved as test subjects and with that
also be a part of city development. Why, when and how they should be involved in
tests in order to create value for customers and VGL have been investigated through
interviews and surveys with citizens and possible future customers of VGL.
The analysis of the collected data resulted in findings that showed that customers
want to test citizens’ behaviour, emotions, understanding and opinions digitally in
order to save resources and time to market. Digital tests are also a safer way of
performing tests for the test subjects. The customers need the citizens to represent
the human perspective, which requires an interest and willingness of participation
from the citizens. Several criteria were found related to the tests and are impor tant for customers and citizens to enter VGL. In order to fulfill the customer and
citizen criteria of accessibility, time efficiency, effort, immersiveness, credible data
and number of participants, an app and a VR simulator are suitable tools and were
developed as a part of the Citizen Test Process that was delivered to VGL in this
master thesis project.
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city development, citizen involvement, digital twin, virtual reality, autonomous vehicles, testing of interaction