Re:A New Concept for Usable Touch Interaction in Cars
by roldie on Wednesday August 12, 2020 @08:18PM
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I agree with the other comments here. Physical knobs and buttons are superior for cars. Until operating a vehicle can be done safely and reliably without driver focus (true autonomous) then we should really be focusing on physical knobs and buttons.
My car has a physical button that is customizable. Much like the radio station preset buttons, but it could be for switching to radio or cd or bluetooth. I think there were a few other options besides just media, but there were only like 5 or 6 options in total. I would love to have a wider selection of functions available to set for that button, and to have at least a handful of programmable buttons that could handle some simple tasks like switching to Android Auto, toggle between Spotify and my podcast app, activate voice, or setting the climate control to a certain setting.
In addition to bringing back physical interfaces, I think car designers should focus on improving NLP/voice recognition to the point where a driver shouldn't have memorize keywords or commands (too much thinking is also very distracting).
My car has a physical button that is customizable. Much like the radio station preset buttons, but it could be for switching to radio or cd or bluetooth. I think there were a few other options besides just media, but there were only like 5 or 6 options in total. I would love to have a wider selection of functions available to set for that button, and to have at least a handful of programmable buttons that could handle some simple tasks like switching to Android Auto, toggle between Spotify and my podcast app, activate voice, or setting the climate control to a certain setting.
In addition to bringing back physical interfaces, I think car designers should focus on improving NLP/voice recognition to the point where a driver shouldn't have memorize keywords or commands (too much thinking is also very distracting).