User Experience

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Scope

In the IVI area (and especially in automotive industry), HMI is considered to be a means for branding and differentiating. This applies not only to the software, but also to the specific input and output devices used to interact with the user. Due to safety aspects, voice input plays an important role. Due to multi-user support (e.g. front and rear seat passengers), multiple displays (possibly with multiple HMI instances) as well multiple audio zones must be supported.

One of the first steps is to agree on some configuration of input/output devices that the IVI vertical would aim to support. On the one hand it should be fairly rich to support at least some of interesting use cases. On the other hand it should be relatively inexpensive and easy to realize with commodity hardware.

Supported I/O Devices

This is proposal that needs to be discussed in the WG.

MeeGo IVI UX should provide integrated support for the following devices (ordered from higher to lower priority):

1. output to main display
2. input from a pointer device (mouse or touch screen)
3. output of main stereo audio (analog or digital--think vehicle speakers)
4. input from a rotary knob (rotate one step to left/right events, up/down/left/right button press events, enter/escape button press events, optional button press events)
5. input from a [mono] microphone (especially for voice commands)
6. output of auxiliary stereo audio (at least one channel; analog or digital--think head phones)
7. output to auxiliary display (one or many)