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In-car Internet. It will be usable?

It felt discussing for quite a while. Still in prototype stage to give a show and never made a product intended for consumption.

Finally there came In-Car Internal t Internet Auto.

BMW, Chrysler and others are already in production line.

After convergence devices, PDAs and friends, new challenges for Web UI Designer looming. How to design, implement User Interfaces for all 'In-Car Internet?

begin by saying that the very term ' Internet Auto ' hides a 'deception' as a reason to believe that Internet , as we know and how we are accustomed to use it, which is the same, without any residue , we're going to use in Auto .

is not so.

The car navigation, of course, is an experience not at all similar to the one dedicated we're used to. When we face our attention to a computer has a very specific focus and attention is focused on this (except, of course, the 'normal' side activities of perception) .

car, however, we are left with a perceptual field mainly occupied by main task (driving) which should be combined with at least two additional sub-tasks (surfing the Internet and view the contents) as much as possible usable and usable in two distinct senses:

• not usable because very different from what the user expects from its cognitive background.


• usable because the dashboard is certainly not a computer and has its specificity in the Web UI will have to adapt.

So a UI as amended, as required by the specifications of the new medium, but not too much to crowd out expectations.

How to design this UI so that the layout, tools, features, screens are contained in the dashboard without sacrificing the 'usability that, in this case, it would be inconvenient as well as from the point of view of compliance User and suicidal in terms of trade also dangerous in terms of primary safety ?

And again, what standards will be adopted?

blending These questions also for the head of the producers themselves who, in fact, are pushing to draw up specifications, obtain insurance, in short, they worry that their container has then an actual content to display and show it as the user expects from their previous experience .

Issues usability and accessibility too often confined to the tiny space that institutions and established business dedicated to the disabled (never admit it!), They acquire greater importance as technologies text-to- speech are available as a vehicle for dissemination in the range-car Internet. The combination of usability, accessibility, therefore, looms again as the main road leading to the content available in Internet alla fruizione degli utenti in nuove condizioni ambientali.

In-car Internet sarà un successo? Secondo gli analisti, si. Ma solo quando la Generazione Y sarà ascesa al trono .