Looking ahead: Designing for in-car HMI

Looking ahead: Designing for in-car HMI

Hard and soft interactions

Before we discuss our thoughts on the best approach for in-car interactions, we will touch upon the types of interactions that exist in the in-car environment.

In-car interactions can be split into two distinct types: hard and soft.

Hard interactions can be defined as deliberate manipulative actions performed by the driver. Examples are: changing the drive position using a button, using an infotainment system via a GUI or inputting location data into the sat-nav.

Soft interactions can be defined as the actions performed by the machine as non-deliberate inputs provided by the user. Self-cancelling turn signals are an example of a soft interaction — where the machine autocompletes a sequence of actions without any user input.

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