Exploring Natural Interaction in the Car
Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjær · 2001
The paper discusses the problems of selecting, and assigning appropriate roles for, the individual (unimodal) modalities which could be used for exchanging information between the car driver and a multiple-task virtual co-driver system. The system is currently being developed by the authors and partners in the VICO (Virtual Intelligent CO-driver) project. The strategy adopted for addressing those problems is to first apply modality theory and then use empirical Wizard-of-Oz (WOZ) simulation to decide issues which the theory does not cover in its present form. The paper present the results of applying modality theory followed by the results of an early WOZ experiment with the VICO system. 1.1 Keywords Natural interaction, multimodality, in-car system, navigation assistance, modality selection. 2