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Francisco Kiss, Robin Boldt, Bastian Pfleging, Stefan Schneegass
Navigation Systems for Motorcyclists: Exploring Wearable Tactile Feedback for Route Guidance in the Real World
In CHI '18: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Montreal, QC, Canada, April 21 - 26, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA. Paper 617, 7 pages. ACM 978-1-4503-5620-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3174191 (bib)

Current navigation systems for motor cyclists use visual or auditory cues for guidance. However, this poses a challenge to the motorcyclists since their visual and auditory channels are already occupied with controlling the motorbike, paying attention to other road users, and planing the next turn. In this work, we explore how tactile feedback can be used to guide motorcyclists. We present MOVING (MOtorbike VIbrational Navigation Guidance), a smart kidney belt that presents navigation cues through 12 vibration motors. In addition, we report on the design process of this wearable and on an evaluation with 16 participants in a real world riding setting. We show that MOVING outperforms off-the-shelf navigation systems in terms of turn errors and distraction.