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Towards an Interaction Language for Force-enabled Touchpads in Cars

Published: 24 October 2016 Publication History

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Force-based touch input is a novel input method for automotive interfaces. It constitutes an efficient and effective way of in-car interaction with an added degree of freedom. Research on force-based in-car interfaces is still scarce. Recommendations such as gesture sets or interaction languages that could guide future implementations have not yet been proposed. As a first step towards closing this gap, we contribute an interaction language for force-enabled input on touchpads in the center console. The language was elicited in a controlled experiment and maps core interactions to common in-car commands. Results from the experiment also shed light onto mental models of in-car force-enabled touchpad input. The elicited interaction language provides guidelines for future force-based touchpad interfaces in the central console.

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    AutomotiveUI '16 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
    October 2016
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    1. Automotive
    2. Elicitation study
    3. Experiment
    4. Force
    5. Interaction language
    6. Touch
    7. Touchpad

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    • (2017)Multi-Level Force Touch Discrimination on Central Information Displays in CarsProceedings of the 9th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications Adjunct10.1145/3131726.3132043(222-227)Online publication date: 24-Sep-2017
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