A New Concept for Usable Touch Interaction in Cars

Re:A New Concept for Usable Touch Interaction in Cars by rckoepke on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @07:51PM (#24138484)

A friend worked on an automotive version of these physical pressbuttons with tiny OLED screens[0]. I thought it was a potential option for the difficult problem of putting reprogrammable/contextual UI into a vehicle, where positive touch interaction is inherently infinitely better than smartphone/ipad style touchscreens.

0: https://www.alliedelec.com/product/nkk-switches/isc15anp4/70...

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Re:A New Concept for Usable Touch Interaction in Cars by brokenmachine on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @09:14PM (#24139015)

Why not just physical buttons below (or next to) the screen, like they sometimes do (badly) on ATMs? They used to do this on the old Nokia phones before touchscreens too.

Would be cheaper than separate OLED displays on every switch.

You could even have assignable physical buttons on the steering wheel, with a HUD on the dash that shows what each button will do.

There's lots of different options and a touchscreen is the absolute worst one.

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