Gamification of Automotive User Interface Ex- ploration

Vehicles have evolved to multi-medial surroundings that provide more than just transportation from A to B. Input elements often have to combine multiple functions at once to cover the rising number of features. It is easy for the driver to lose track of the entirety of operations that the vehicle provides. The knowledge of these features is only rarely acquired by consulting the user manual. A concept for a mobile application and its implementation for Android devices is thus presented in this work. The application is supposed to motivate the user to engage with the vehicle user interface by implementing Gamification elements. To this outcome, the work analyses behaviour studies on vehicle operation. Additionally, the work includes the theory on human motivation and examines current definitions on Gamification. The setup, as well as results and analysis of the experiment to test the prototype of the mobile application are presented and proposals for further development are given.

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