VOLKSWAGEN ACUITY SYSTEM
01 ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: This project describes the design methods of discovering mobile interactions within the context of a connected vehicle experience. The project titled “Acuity” focuses on revealing a richer understanding of how users interact with today’s content on both mobile devices and the in car infotainment system. The result of this design process should help find various design insights and concepts to help make next generation infotainment systems integrate mobile devices in more seamless ways.
02 INSPIRATION
INSPIRATION: The source of inspiration was the continued growth and influence smartphones have in people’s daily lives, but how the friction or “distraction” this experience creates when it comes in contact with our driving context. What role should a mobile phone play within the context of the driving experience?
03 METHOD
METHOD: The methods and approaches to this problem involved user interviews, contextual inquiry, competitive analysis, historical overview of the Smartphone, historical overview of the Infotainment system, future trends, and literature reviews. The research progressed into prototyping in paper, in digital, and finally an experience prototype to help build a higher fidelity engagement with the product. All these methods accumulated lead to an informed design solution.
04EXPERIENCE PROTOTYPE
05 FINAL RESULT
FINAL RESULT: The final result named “VW Acuity System” is the next generation mobile application and vehicle infotainment system designed to help users interact with mobile content safely within the VW driving experience. The mobile application installed on the user’s phone helps them manage three main aspects of their mobile content, communication, navigation and media in a way that helps keep them focused on driving without having to physically interact with the mobile device. The driver physically loads in their mobile device into the vehicle dashboard and manages the content from the vehicle dashboard UI. The users content is loaded into the acuity infotainment system and is managed through a touch UI experience on the vehicle dashboard which is optimized in a HMI (Human Machine Interaction) driving context. Another key feature of Acuity is a gesture driven menu toolbar that predicts when the user’s hand is approaching the UI to bring up menu options to quickly access while driving.
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