Vehicle UI Display Placement Using Context-Aware Driver Feedback
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Solution Overview
Problem
The increasing use of digital displays in vehicles leads to user interfaces that are not optimally displayed, causing undue effort for users to locate desired functionality, as they fail to adapt to context and user preferences.
Innovation Solution
A control system utilizing a dynamic decision model that obtains context information and user responses to determine optimal display locations for user interface items across multiple vehicle displays, adapting in real-time to enhance accuracy and user convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If displays increasingly replace physical HMI switchgear and analogue instruments, then flexibility over which user interfaces are displayed is improved, but user effort to locate desired functionality increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system dynamically adjusts display locations of user interface items based on context information and user behavior patterns. The display management system transitions from static to dynamic positioning, where interface elements automatically relocate according to driving conditions, time of day, and individual user preferences, thereby maintaining flexibility while reducing user search effort
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms by monitoring user interactions with displayed interface items and using this information to optimize future display locations. Through tracking user behavior patterns and responses, the system learns and adapts to individual preferences, automatically adjusting interface positions to anticipate user needs and minimize locating time
2Device complexity
If user interfaces are not optimised for display location, then system complexity is reduced, but user effort and time to locate functionality increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-positioning user interface items in optimal locations before users need them. Based on predicted user needs and contextual factors, the system proactively arranges interface elements in anticipated optimal positions, reducing the time users spend searching without requiring complex real-time adjustment mechanisms
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to a control system (200), to a vehicle (1), to a method (400), and to computer software (208). The method (400) is a method of controlling a user interface of a vehicle (1). The method (400) comprises obtaining (402) context information associated with use of the vehicle. The method (400) comprises providing (402) the context information to a dynamic decision model to determine (404) a display location at which to display a user interface item (502-518) on at least one of a plurality of driver-viewable displays (216, 218, 220) at different locations relative to a front windscreen (2) of the vehicle. The method (400) comprises causing (406) the user interface item (502-518) to be displayed at the determined display location. The method (400) comprises updating (410, 412, 414) the dynamic decision model in dependence on the context information and a determined user response to the display location of display of the user interface item (502-518).