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Nora Broy, Benedikt Zierer , Florian Alt, Stefan Schneegass
Exploring Virtual Depth for Automotive Instrument Cluster Concepts
In CHI '14 EA: Extended Abstracts of the 32nd SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Toronto, Canada, April 26 - May 1, 2014. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib)

This paper compares the user experience of three novel concept designs for 3D-based car dashboards. Our work is motivated by the fact that analogue dashboards are currently being replaced by their digital counterparts. At the same time, auto-stereoscopic displays enter the market, allowing the quality of novel dashboards to be increased, both with regard to the perceived quality and in supporting the driving task. Since no guidelines or principles exist for the design of digital 3D dashboards, we take an initial step in designing and evaluating such interfaces. In a study with 12 participants we were able to show that stereoscopic 3D increases the perceived quality of the display, while motion parallax leads to a rather disturbing experience.