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An exploratory study on the impact of typeface design in a text rich user interface on off-road glance behavior

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This paper reports on the initial results of an exploratory study of the impact of typeface design on glance behavior away from the roadway when a driver interacts with a multi-line menu display designed to model a text rich automotive human machine interface (HMI). Data from 42 participants ranging from 36 to 75 years of age was collected in a driving simulation experiment in which participants were asked to respond to a series of address, restaurant identification, and content search menus that were implemented using two different typeface designs. Among men, a "square grotesque" typeface resulted in a 12.2% increase in visual demand as compared to the "humanist" typeface. Total glance time and number of glances required to complete a response showed consistent results. This research suggests that optimizing typeface characteristics may be viewed as a "low cost" method of providing a significant reduction in interface demand and associated distractions. Future work will need to assess if other font characteristics can be tuned to provide further reductions in demand.

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          AutomotiveUI '12: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
          October 2012
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          1. automotive human machine interface
          2. distraction
          3. driver safety
          4. eye tracking font characteristics
          5. legibility
          6. typeface style
          7. workload

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