Dynamic Destination Icon Resizing for Navigation Spontaneity
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current navigation systems in motor vehicles overwhelm users with excessive data, leading to decision fatigue and distracted driving, as they lack intuitive methods for destination selection that account for user preferences and spontaneity.
Innovation Solution
A destination selection system utilizing a human-machine interface with a controller and positioning system, which includes programmatic logic for displaying and resizing icons based on user inputs, preferences, and real-time data, offering keyword and randomization functions to streamline destination choices and highlight relevant points of interest.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If comprehensive destination data is displayed to users, then information completeness is improved, but user cognitive load increases leading to decision fatigue
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and highlights only the most relevant destination options based on user preferences, vehicle capabilities, and contextual factors, separating critical information from comprehensive data to reduce cognitive load while maintaining information availability
Solution Approach 2:
Different levels of information detail are provided for different destinations based on their relevance scores, with high-priority destinations receiving more prominent display and detailed information, while lower-priority destinations receive condensed information
2Ease of operation
If traditional keyword-based destination selection is used, then user control is improved, but spontaneity and travel interest decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically switches between keyword-based selection and randomized recommendation modes, allowing users to control the level of spontaneity in their travel planning based on current context and preferences
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically generates personalized destination recommendations by analyzing user preferences, vehicle capabilities, and contextual factors without requiring explicit user input, enabling spontaneous travel decisions
3Device complexity
If static icon display is used, then system simplicity is improved, but real-time destination relevance indication decreases
Solution Approach 1:
Destination icons dynamically change size, color, and position based on their relevance scores and real-time contextual factors, providing intuitive visual feedback about destination priority without requiring complex interface elements
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses color variations and visual highlighting to indicate destination relevance and urgency, with more relevant destinations displayed in more prominent colors and positions
Data Source
AI summary
A destination selection system for determining travel destinations includes a human-machine interface (HMI); a positioning system in communication with the HMI; a controller in communication with the HMI and the positioning system, the controller having a processor, and a memory, the processor executing programmatic logic stored in the memory. The programmatic logic includes a first logic to display an icon on the HMI based on position data received from the positioning system; and a second logic for sizing the icon based on at least one of the position data and one or more additional factors, and in response to at least one of the position data and one or more additional factors actively and continuously resizing the icon.