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Authors:
Diana Trojaniello
Alessia Cristiano
Stela Musteata
Alberto Sanna
Keywords: Ageing; Elderly; Mobility; HMI; Human Machine Interaction; Gesture control; Usability; User experience
Abstract:
Driving a car represents a crucial aspect to keep independence, social life and wellbeing for elderly people. Due to the age-related cognitive decline, solutions aimed to help older adults to interact easily with the vehicle and to control the car sub-systems are required. Thanks to the technology advancement, a number of interaction modalities are available, including touch, voice and, most recently, gesture control. Systems based on gesture control allow the subjects to interact with the vehicle sub-systems (i.e., vehicle navigation tool) through easy gestures, thus avoiding the subjects to be distracted while driving. This represents an interesting feature for elderly people who often show limitations in attention. On the other hand, learning the use of new technologies, such as a new interaction modality, as for the gesture control based systems, could represent a critical issue, in particular for elderly people who often suffer of memory problems. The current study aims to investigate the usability, user experience and mental workload associated with the first usage of a new developed prototype of an in-vehicle system, based on gesture control, for elderly people. Results showed that a low usability degree, as well as a quite high mental workload, is associated to the usage of the proposed prototype. The inclusion of other interaction modalities, such as voice and touch controls, as well as the improvement in the gesture control system, i.e., by reducing the number of gestures needed, is required in future releases of the developed prototype.
Pages: 36 to 41
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018
Publication date: October 14, 2018
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2519-8491
ISBN: 978-1-61208-675-0
Location: Nice, France
Dates: from October 14, 2018 to October 18, 2018