Navigation to multiple local transportation futures
Alexandra Zafiroglu, Jennifer A. Healey, Tim Plowman · 2012
This paper describes findings from a three country, twenty-four participant study consisting of two in-home and in-car ethnographic interviews, separated by a month during which participants created videos, and their cars were GPS tracked and their Android smartphone data collected during and surrounding their driving times. We demonstrate how an ethnographic research approach that cross-interrogates data produced by GPS sensors, smart phone application monitoring, ethnographic interviews and participant-produced videos maps out a rich design space for future automotive user interfaces. These findings redefine the design space for automotive user interfaces and interactive vehicular interactions by recording real necessities, joys and pain points that people experience when using their cars.