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Exploring the Use of Mid-Air Ultrasonic Feedback to Enhance Automotive User Interfaces

Harrington, Kyle; Large, David R.; Burnett, Gary; Georgiou, Orestis

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Authors

DAVID LARGE David.R.Large@nottingham.ac.uk
Senior Research Fellow

Gary Burnett

Orestis Georgiou



Abstract

© 2018 ACM. Employing a 2×2 within-subjects design, forty-eight experienced drivers (28 male, 20 female) undertook repeated button selection and 'slider-bar' manipulation tasks, to compare a traditional touchscreen with a virtual mid-air gesture interface in a driving simulator. Both interfaces were tested with and without haptic feedback generated using ultrasound. Results show that combining gestures with mid-air haptic feedback was particularly promising, reducing the number of long glances and mean off-road glance time associated with the in-vehicle tasks. For slider-bar tasks in particular, gestures-with-haptics was also associated with the shortest interaction times, highest number of correct responses and least 'overshoots', and was favoured by participants. In contrast, for button-selection tasks, the touchscreen was most popular, enabling the highest accuracy and quickest responses, particularly when combined with haptic feedback to guide interactions, although this also increased visual demand. The study shows clear potential for gestures with mid-air ultrasonic haptic feedback in the automotive domain.

Citation

Harrington, K., Large, D. R., Burnett, G., & Georgiou, O. (2018). Exploring the Use of Mid-Air Ultrasonic Feedback to Enhance Automotive User Interfaces. In AutomotiveUI '18: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (11-20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3239060.3239089

Conference Name AutomotiveUI '18: 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
Conference Location Toronto ON Canada
Start Date Sep 23, 2018
End Date Sep 25, 2018
Acceptance Date Sep 23, 2018
Online Publication Date Sep 23, 2018
Publication Date Sep 23, 2018
Deposit Date Nov 22, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Pages 11-20
Book Title AutomotiveUI '18: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
ISBN 9781450359467
DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3239060.3239089
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1221649
Publisher URL https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3239060.3239089

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