Publication
Gestural Interaction on the Steering Wheel - Reducing the Visual Demands.
Tanja Döring; Dagmar Kern; Paul Marshall; Max Pfeiffer; Johannes Schöning; Volker Gruhn; Albrecht Schmidt
In: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI-11), May 7-12, Vancouver, BC, Canada, ACM, 2011.
Abstract
Cars offer an increasing number of infotainment systems
as well as comfort functions that can be controlled by the
driver. In our research, we investigate new interaction
techniques that aim to make it easier to interact with these
systems while driving. We suggest utilizing the steering
wheel as an additional interaction surface. In this paper,
we present two user studies conducted with a working
prototype of a multi-touch steering wheel. In the first, we
developed a user-defined steering wheel gesture set, and in
the second, we applied the identified gestures and compared
their application to conventional user interaction with
infotainment systems in terms of driver distraction. The
main outcome was that driver’s visual demand is reduced
significantly by using gestural interaction on the multi-
touch steering wheel.