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Human–machine collaboration through vehicle head up display interface

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This work introduces a novel design for an automotive full-windshield head-up display (HUD) interface which aims to improve the driver’s spatial awareness and response times under low visibility conditions. To fulfil these requirements, we have designed and implemented a working prototype of a human–machine interface (HMI). Particular emphasis was placed on the prioritisation and effective presentation of information available through vehicular sensors, which would assist, without distracting, the driver in successfully navigating the vehicle under low visibility conditions. The proposed interface is based on minimalist visual representations of real objects to offer a new form of interactive guidance for motorway environments. Overall, this work discusses the design challenges of such a human–machine system, elaborates on the interface design philosophy and presents the outcome of user trials that contrasted the effectiveness of our proposed HUD against a typical head-down display (HDD).

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The main financial support for this research project has been provided by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and National Scholarships Foundation (IKY). User trials for this work were carried out in the E-motion Lab, which was graciously donated by the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences of Glasgow Caledonian University. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the Traffic Police Officers of the Strathclyde Police Department for their valuable contribution during the implementation of this research.

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  1. Digital Design Studio, University of Glasgow, G.S.A., 10 Dumbreck Road, Glasgow, G41 5BW, UK

    Vassilis Charissis

  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK

    Stylianos Papanastasiou

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Charissis, V., Papanastasiou, S. Human–machine collaboration through vehicle head up display interface. Cogn Tech Work 12, 41–50 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-008-0117-0

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