Classification of Extended Reality based Human Machine Interfaces Scenarios for Urban Air Mobility

Uban Air Mobility is a new concept of air transportation system that include platforms with different specifications, mainly vertical take-off and landing vehicles, aiming to transport goods and people within urban settings by alternatively managing traffic in congested ground mobility. To ensure the operability of Urban Air Mobility, some challenges and objectives in terms of public acceptance and effective design of operational scenarios still need to be achieved before its full integration and deployment. Extended Reality technologies can contribute to the successful realization of these goals as they offer immersive Human-Machine Interfaces that can improve the implementation of such innovative transportation systems. This paper explores Extended Reality-based scenarios and their potential applications for Urban Air Mobility within the framework of the Reality Virtuality Continuum and end user of Urban Air Mobility are elicited. The most promising applications of the proposed approach are discussed, focusing on the main feature that can be enhanced though the adoption of Extended Reality-based technologies.