Although alternative means of text input in vehicles have already been developed, touchscreen keyboards still pose a standard solution for this input in modern vehicles. Until alternative means of text input will be widely available in vehicles, it is ...

Information provision services in vehicle have started according to the progress of data communication infrastructure surrounding vehicles. In such information services, a large amount of data related to vehicles and drivers has been accumulated to the ...

Pedal error, i.e., pedal misapplication, while driving is a major problem, particularly for older drivers. Psychological studies on aging and cognition have shown that the cognitive functions of older people are different from those of younger people. ...

What could or should your car be saying about you to other cars or other people on the road? In this paper, we present some preliminary results from a multi-state in-vehicle driver monitoring system and position it with respect to our work in M2M ...

The objective of this study was to assess the monotonic mental workload under changing conditions of operator fatigue during a night time driver simulation study. Several cardiovascular measures were used in order to differentiate between driving and a ...

Detection response tasks (DRTs) have been used in many different laboratory settings and their usage continues to spread. The degree to which the DRT is replicable and produces concurring results is an important characteristic of its validity. The ...

We present results of a study on referring to the outside environment from within a moving vehicle. Reference resolution is the first necessary step in integrating the outside environment into the interactive system in the car. It is the problem of ...

Human-computer confluence (HCC) aims at investigating how the emerging symbiotic relation between humans and computing devices can enable new forms of sensing, perception, interaction, and comprehension. Latest advancements in information and ...

Driving a modern vehicle is a complex, cognitive demanding task involving concentrated observation of the road, roadside, car status, information displays of assistance systems, etc. Drivers are conscious about this overabundance of information, ...

Design knowledge plays a key role in the design of a good automotive user interface. In this paper, we propose a qualitative field study and design approach to develop a design knowledge system for automotive user interface. The methods used are based ...

This paper uses a conventional task analysis (TA) in a compact parking space maneuver scenario. The goal of this analysis is to identify areas where driver errors might occur during a common driving maneuver. Backing out of a parking space can be ...

In driving simulator studies pupil diameter is often employed as a physiological measure of cognitive load. However, pupil size is primarily influenced by the pupillary light reflex (PLR). In this paper, we explore the influence of the size and luminance ...

This paper describes the impact of speech recognition word error rate (WER) on driver's distraction in the context of short message dictation. A multi-modal dictation and error correction system was used in a simulated driving environment (Lane Change ...

This study compared the performance metrics of drivers who carried out visual-manipulative and auditory in-vehicle tasks while driving. Although these two different types of secondary tasks resulted in similar levels of self-reported workload, ...

Vehicle area network (VAN) communications and related services are getting more pervasive [1]. However, even though user-centered design has been emphasized, VAN services have often been developed through a technology-driven approach. This paper ...

Implementing controls in the car becomes a major challenge: The use of simple physical buttons does not scale to the increased number of assistive, comfort, and infotainment functions. Current solutions include hierarchical menus and multi-functional ...

This paper describes findings from a three country, twenty-four participant study consisting of two in-home and in-car ethnographic interviews, separated by a month during which participants created videos, and their cars were GPS tracked and their ...

Current in-car navigation systems provide only a limited level of adaption to the driver and driving conditions. The driver's actual information need while interacting with the navigation interface is not taken into account. This paper aims at ...

Traffic information from diverse transportation domains is increasingly becoming interlinked and accessible in real-time. Upcoming intermodal transportation services could advise drivers to change to a public transportation means, especially in case of ...

Safe interaction with interactive systems in the car requires both hands to be placed on the steering wheel and eyes to be kept on the road. To allow safe text input in the vehicle, we propose the back of the steering wheel as space for interactive text ...