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Handy: A New Interaction Device for Vehicular Information Systems

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The design of interfaces for automotive information systems is a critical task. In fact, such design must take into account that user is busy in the primary driving task, and any visual distraction determined by telematics systems can cause serious safety problems. To limit such distraction and enhance safety, in this paper we propose a novel multimodal user interface. The key element of the proposal is a new interaction device, named Handy, conceived to exploit the driver’s tactile channel to minimize the workload of visual channel. Moreover Handy is suitably integrated with the graphical user interface, which is characterized by a reduced number of choices for each state and has been designed in agreement with the self-revealing approach.

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Costagliola, G., Di Martino, S., Ferrucci, F., Oliviero, G., Montemurro, U., Paliotti, A. (2004). Handy: A New Interaction Device for Vehicular Information Systems. In: Brewster, S., Dunlop, M. (eds) Mobile Human-Computer Interaction - MobileHCI 2004. Mobile HCI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-28637-0_23

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