“Get off your car!”: studying the user requirements of in-vehicle intermodal routing services
by Fröhlich, Peter, Baldauf, Matthias, Suette, Stefan, Schabus, Dietmar, Lehner, Ulrich, Jandrisits, Marko and Paier, Alexander
Abstract:
Traffic information from diverse transportation domains is increasingly becoming interlinked and accessible in real-time. Upcoming intermodal transportation services could advise drivers to change to a public transportation means, especially in case of severe congestions on the road. We present a road user study with 52 participants with an in-car intermodal routing prototype that gained first empirical evidence on the user requirements in such scenarios. We found that a considerable number of recommendations for modal shifts to public transit were actually accepted by the drivers. In-car inquiry results highlight that decision-making under such complex time-constrained conditions needs to be supported by a considerable amount of updated, detailed and valid information about time savings, pricing, connections and also the actual route situation ahead. We show that the presentation of such large amounts of information should be feasible without categorical safety losses, even with small- screen devices (such as smartphones). To guide further development, related design experiences with regard to presentation modality, system input, and screen design are shared.
Reference:
“Get off your car!”: studying the user requirements of in-vehicle intermodal routing services (Fröhlich, Peter, Baldauf, Matthias, Suette, Stefan, Schabus, Dietmar, Lehner, Ulrich, Jandrisits, Marko and Paier, Alexander), In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI), 2012.
Bibtex Entry:
@InProceedings{Frohlich2012,
author = {Fröhlich, Peter and Baldauf, Matthias and Suette, Stefan and Schabus, Dietmar and Lehner, Ulrich and Jandrisits, Marko and Paier, Alexander},
title = {“Get off your car!”: studying the user requirements of in-vehicle intermodal routing services},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI)},
year = {2012},
pages = {123-130},
address = {Portsmouth, NH, USA},
month = oct,
abstract = {Traffic information from diverse transportation domains is
increasingly becoming interlinked and accessible in real-time.
Upcoming intermodal transportation services could advise drivers
to change to a public transportation means, especially in case of
severe congestions on the road. We present a road user study with
52 participants with an in-car intermodal routing prototype that
gained first empirical evidence on the user requirements in such
scenarios. We found that a considerable number of
recommendations for modal shifts to public transit were actually
accepted by the drivers. In-car inquiry results highlight that
decision-making under such complex time-constrained conditions
needs to be supported by a considerable amount of updated,
detailed and valid information about time savings, pricing,
connections and also the actual route situation ahead. We show
that the presentation of such large amounts of information should
be feasible without categorical safety losses, even with small-
screen devices (such as smartphones). To guide further
development, related design experiences with regard to
presentation modality, system input, and screen design are shared.},
acmid = {2390277},
doi = {10.1145/2390256.2390277},
file = {/download/froehlich_AutomotiveUI_2012},
isbn = {978-1-4503-1751-1},
keywords = {intelligent transportation systems, intermodal routing, multimodal transportation, traffic telematics user studies},
location = {Portsmouth, New Hampshire},
numpages = {8},
owner = {schabus},
timestamp = {2014.09.16},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/authorize?N07742},
}