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Nora Broy, Stefan Schneegass, Mengbing Guo, Florian Alt, Albrecht Schmidt
Evaluating Stereoscopic 3D for Automotive User Interfaces in a Real-World Driving Study
In CHI '15 EA: Extended Abstracts of the 33nd SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seoul, Republic of Korea, April 18 - 23, 2015. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)

This paper reports on the use of in-car 3D displays in a real-world driving scenario. Today, stereoscopic displays are becoming ubiquitous in many domains such as mobile phones or TVs. Instead of using 3D for entertainment, we explore the 3D effect as a mean to spatially structure user interface (UI) elements. To evaluate potentials and drawbacks of in-car 3D displays we mounted an autostereoscopic display as instrument cluster in a vehicle and conducted a real-world driving study with 15 experts in automotive UI design. The results show that the 3D effect increases the perceived quality of the UI and enhances the presentation of spatial information (e.g., navigation cues) compared to 2D. However, the effect should be used well-considered to avoid spatial clutter which can increase the system's complexity.