I See Your Gesture: A VR-Based Study of Bidirectional Communication between Pedestrians and Automated Vehicles

Table 2

Mean rank when sorting the four experimental conditions (n = 26).

	Baseline	eHMI	Hand	Combination
Feeling of safety to cross (1 = most safe to cross)	3.58	1.85	3.23	1.19
Sureness of being seen (1 = surest that the car has seen me)	3.62	1.92	3.04	1.23
Affected by lack of eye contact (1 = most affected)	2.15	2.73	2.35	2.85
General preference (1 = most preferred)	3.46	1.73	3.42	1.35