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The Two-User Seating Buck: Enabling Face-to-Face Discussions of Novel Car Interface Concepts

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The Two-User Seating Buck: Enabling Face-to-Face Discussions of Novel Car Interface Concepts
The automotive industry uses physical seating bucks, which are minimal mockups of a car interior, to assess various aspects of the planned interior early in the development process. In a virtual seating buck, users wear a head-mounted display (HMD) which overlays a virtual car interior on a physical seating buck. We have developed a two-user virtual seating buck system, which allows two users to take the role of the driver and co-driver respectively. Both users wear tracked head-mounted displays and see the virtual car interior from the respective view points enabling them to properly interact with the interface elements of a car. We use this system for the development, test and evaluation of novel human-machine interface concepts for future car models. We provide each user with an avatar, since the two co-located users need to see each others’ actions. Our evaluation of different head and hand models for representing the two users indicate that the user representations and motions ...
Holger Salzmann, Bernd Froehlich
Added 01 Jun 2010
Updated 01 Jun 2010
Type Conference
Year 2008
Where VR
Authors Holger Salzmann, Bernd Froehlich
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