How to make large touch screens usable while driving

Rümelin, Sonja; Butz, Andreas

doi:10.1145/2516540.2516557

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“…As touchscreen infotainment systems became popular in cars, researchers investigated in-car touch-based interactions [3,6,9,11,20,24]. Kern and Schmidt [10] discussed the increased number of input devices (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Evaluation of Input Controls for In-Car Interactions

Brewster

Beruscha

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The way drivers operate in-car systems is rapidly changing as traditional physical controls, such as buttons and dials, are being replaced by touchscreens and touch-sensing surfaces. This has the potential to increase driver distraction and error as controls may be harder to find and use. This paper presents an in-car, on the road driving study which examined three key types of input controls to investigate their effects: a physical dial, pressure-based input on a touch surface and touch input on a touchscreen. The physical dial and pressure-based input were also evaluated with and without haptic feedback. The study was conducted with users performing a list-based targeting task using the different controls while driving on public roads. Eye-gaze was recorded to measure distraction from the primary task of driving. The results showed that target accuracy was high across all input methods (greater than 94%). Pressurebased targeting was the slowest while directly tapping on the targets was the faster selection method. Pressure-based input also caused the largest number of glances towards to the touchscreen but the duration of each glance was shorter than directly touching the screen. Our study will enable designers to make more appropriate design choices for future in-car interactions.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Evaluation of Input Controls for In-Car Interactions

Brewster

Beruscha

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Much of the new research focuses on different methods of interacting with the touchscreen to reduce distraction and improve performance relative to the direct touch method. However, little published research (Rümelin & Butz, 2013) to date has tackled the issues associated with larger touchscreen displays in terms of scanning and interaction while driving.…”

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Comparing Performance when Using a New Style Large Touchscreen Compared to a Traditional In-Vehicle Touchscreen

Brown¹,

Marshall²,

Lerner

2019

Proceedings of the 10th International Driving Symposium on Human Factors in Driver Assessment, Training and Vehicle Design: Dri

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New in-vehicle touch screen displays are increasing in size and complexity, and the effect on distraction to the driver associated with their use is unclear. Large touchscreen displays, such as those in the Tesla, provide a richer display environment as well as a larger area compared to traditional in-vehicle touchscreens even when the same capabilities are available. This simulator study examines how performing the same tasks on two different types on in-vehicle displays impacts glance behavior, vehicle control and workload. Results show that the large touchscreen results in longer average glance lengths, a greater percentage of glances of more than 2-seconds, but fewer glances. For vehicle control, there were no differences in lateral control, but the large touchscreen showed less variability in speed and speed range overall, but not uniformly across the tasks. Drivers did not report different levels of workload between the two interfaces. The results point to the need for careful design to minimize the likelihood of long glances as vehicle design moves to larger displays.

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“…A concrete example is the change of touch screen size and resolution. A bigger screen size might be difficult to use while driving (Rümelin & Butz 2013) and a higher resolution might texts to be displayed too small and thus difficult to read (Stevens et al 2002). Both changes might have a negative effect on user-experience, which is part of the UI layer.…”

Section: Transdisciplinary Research For Automotive Multi-operating Symentioning

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Transdisciplinarity Seen Through Information, Communication, Computation, (Inter-)Action and Cognition

Dodig-Crnković¹,

Kade²,

Wallmyr³

et al. 2017

Information Studies and the Quest for Transdisciplinarity

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Similar to oil that acted as a basic raw material and key driving force of industrial society, information acts as a raw material and principal mover of knowledge society in the knowledge production, propagation and application. New developments in information processing and information communication technologies allow increasingly complex and accurate descriptions, representations and models, which are often multi-parameter, multiperspective, multi-level and multidimensional. This leads to the necessity of collaborative work between different domains with corresponding specialist competences, sciences and research traditions. We present several major transdisciplinary unification projects for information and knowledge, which proceed on the descriptive, logical and the level of generative mechanisms. Parallel process of boundary crossing and transdisciplinary activity is going on in the applied domains. Technological artifacts are becoming increasingly complex and their design is strongly user-centered, which brings in not only the function and various technological qualities but also other aspects including esthetic, user experience, ethics and sustainability with social and environmental dimensions. When integrating knowledge from a variety of fields, with contributions from different groups of stakeholders, numerous challenges are met in establishing common view and common course of action. In this context, information is our environment, and informational ecology determines both epistemology and spaces for action. We present some insights into the current state of the art of transdisciplinary theory and practice of information studies and informatics. We depict different facets of transdisciplinarity as we see it from our different research fields that include information studies, computability, human-computer interaction, multi-operatingsystems environments and philosophy.

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How to make large touch screens usable while driving

Cited by 31 publications

References 25 publications

An Evaluation of Input Controls for In-Car Interactions

An Evaluation of Input Controls for In-Car Interactions

Comparing Performance when Using a New Style Large Touchscreen Compared to a Traditional In-Vehicle Touchscreen

Transdisciplinarity Seen Through Information, Communication, Computation, (Inter-)Action and Cognition

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