Intelligent In-Car-Infotainment Systems: A Contextual Personalized Approach

In the last decade, on-board computers were continuously substituted by sophisticated in-car-infotainment systems due to the ever increasing demand for mobile services and entertainment features. As a consequence, the automotive user interfaces became more complex and a driver is now faced with the time and attention-consuming task of traversing a menu structure in order to execute a desired functionality. Extending an in-car-infotainment system with the ability to trace recurrent user behavior within an intelligent environment opens up new opportunities for user-adaptive and context-aware user interfaces. This paper introduces two different approaches to simplify the task of executing a preferred feature by either personalizing a list of context-dependent shortcuts or by automatically executing regularly used features. Both approaches are evaluated against an in-car-infotainment system that is currently available on the market. Additionally, a fully functional prototype with a real world driving simulator was implemented in order to conduct an user study within our labs.