The effect of road bumps on touch interaction in cars

Sven Mayer, Huy Viet Le, Alessandro Nesti, Niels Henze, Heinrich H. Bülthoff, Lewis L. Chuang

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Abstract

Touchscreens are a common fixture in current vehicles. With autonomous driving, we can expect touch interaction with such in-vehicle media systems to exponentially increase. In spite of vehicle suspension systems, road perturbations will continue to exert forces that can render in-vehicle touch interaction challenging. Using a motion simulator, we investigate how different vehicle speeds interact with road features (i.e., speed bumps) to influence touch interaction. We determine their effect on pointing accuracy and task completion time. We show that road bumps have a significant effect on touch input and can decrease accuracy by 19%. In light of this, we developed a Random Forest (RF) model that improves touch accuracy by 32.0% on our test set and by 22.5% on our validation set. As the lightweight model uses only features that can easily be determined through inertial measurement units, this model could be easily deployed in current automobiles.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 10th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, AutomotiveUI 2018
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages85-93
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781450359467
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018 Sept 23
Event10th ACM International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, AutomotiveUI 2018 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 2018 Sept 232018 Sept 25

Publication series

NameProceedings - 10th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, AutomotiveUI 2018

Other

Other10th ACM International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, AutomotiveUI 2018
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period18/9/2318/9/25

Keywords

  • Car
  • Center console
  • In-vehicle touchscreens
  • Offset correction model
  • On board entertainment system
  • Touch accuracy

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Automotive Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-Computer Interaction

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