myCOMAND: Automotive HMI framework for personalization of web-based content collections

The myCOMAND automotive infotainment system enables in-vehicle access to the large variety of information and multimedia content aggregated from public Web services. In this paper, the fuzzy logic approach for preference modeling for user-related personalization and its bindings to a flexible user interface framework are described. Both components are used to create flexible user interface components that visually rank and group any content items based on user preferences. Access to the preferred and most important items with only a few interaction steps can avoid distraction when browsing large web-based content collections on smaller screen sizes. Ranking for each information item is annotated based on fuzzy preferences and a shared taxonomy of content categories. Preference values are implicitly learned from user interaction or can be set explicitly by the user. In particular, a use case for browsing Internet radio stations is described. Items are ranked according to the user´s preferences and item novelty and arranged in a carousel-like layout. A visual overview mode helps to quickly review the structure of large content collections.