The next revolution: vehicle user-interfaces and the global rider/driver experience

The driver/rider experience is a major development in mobile user-interface (UI) design worldwide, similar in scale to the first introduction of personal computers to the desktop. Most automobile manufacturers seeking to develop smart cars have relatively little experience with advanced software-based UIs and information visualization (IV). This panel introduces essential issues of vehicle UI design to the CHI community and offers competing views about the most important issues affecting usability, safety, appeal, functionality, information, and entertainment.