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Nowadays, drivers have to cope with a growing amount of information coming from on-board information messages, telematics and advanced driver assistance systems. The interaction between the driver and these systems is critical, since they may distract the driver from the primary task of driving. The paper, addressing this problem, aims at presenting the methodological framework for the optimization of human machine interfaces (HMI) in the automotive research area; thus, the proper communication and interaction strategies are designed, in order to deliver to the driver a message or a warning in the optimal way in terms of driver safety. The proposed methodology is adopted in the COMUNICAR project and relevant results are presented. Last but not the least, the AIDE integrated project and its vision is also proposed as the roadmap for future activities in the HMI sector.
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As Nomadic devices, with respect to the automotive environment, we define all portable devices that the driver brings into the vehicle and uses while driving (e.g., mobile phone, PDA)
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The authors would like to thank COMUNICAR and AIDE Consortium. COMUNICAR comes from the so-called European funded project started in January 2000 and finished in May 2003, involving a consortium of 11 partners belonging to 6 European countries. The Project AIDE, which is a European funded project, started in March 2004 and will last for 4 years. The coordinator of the project is Volvo Technology (SE). The core group of the project consists of Bosch (D), ICCS (EL), CRF (I), PSA (F), JRC (I), BMW (D), and TNO (NL), while the whole consortium consists of 28 partners from both research and industry. The AIDE is divided into four sub-projects dealing with various interrelated research topics: Sub-project 1: Behavioral effects and driver-vehicle-environment modeling; Sub-project 2: Evaluation and assessment methodology; Sub-project 3: Design and development of and adaptive integrated driver-vehicle interface; Sub-project 4: Horizontal activities.
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The presented work was funded in part by the 5th and 6th European projects COMUNICAR and AIDE, respectively.
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Amditis, A., Polychronopoulos, A., Andreone, L. et al. Communication and interaction strategies in automotive adaptive interfaces. Cogn Tech Work 8, 193–199 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-006-0033-0
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