Abstract
To promote UAM adoption in society, it is necessary to accurately assess the impact of UAM flights on people’s unconscious sensibilities. However, flying UAMs to measure these unconscious sensibilities incurs high costs. Therefore, instead of flying actual UAMs, it is conceivable to measure the unconscious sensibilities when people view CG of flying UAMs. The issue here is the potential discrepancy in the sensibilities people experience when exposed to real versus CG UAM flights. Previous studies attempted to evaluate this sensitivity discrepancy by using a small drone instead of UAMs. However, they could perform little statistical analysis due to the small sample size. This study gathered a larger number of participants than previous research and measured the sensitivity responses elicited by the flight of real and CG drones. Statistical hypothesis testing was then performed, and discrepancies were detected in two sensitivity indices. Furthermore, for the other sensitivity indices where no discrepancy was detected, the sample size required to detect a
discrepancy was estimated.
