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Sonja Rümelin, Christopher Rölle
Using the last steps - exploring natural interaction for automotive use cases
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '11), Salzburg, Austria, November/December 2011, 160-161. (bib)

Adjusting the car to the drivers and passengers needs is a key value for safety, well-being and customer satisfaction. Configuring the car can be tiresome and complex. Methods of pre-configuring may raise the level of comfort if applied correctly. We introduce several scenarios to use the time of approaching the car for implicit and explicit communication between human and machine by 3D object recognition and gesture interaction. Identifying persons and understanding their situation is critical to set gestures into the right context. First steps towards assembling a prototype to explore the range of natural interactions around the car have been taken to test the feasibility of the approach.