What do Volvo, Nissan and Mitsubishi have in common? Have you ever heard of Nissan's smart rear-view mirror, Volvo and Apple's CarPlay system, Mitsubishi’s ‘Ultra-Simple HMI’? These are the latest responses to the big challenges of multi-modal HMI systems development adding to driver safety and minimizing distractions during the car ride. Learn more about vehicle HMI with Multi-Modal Systems in the article here: http://bit.ly/Slideshare_HMI_Pawsey

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A Holistic Approach to Vehicle HMI with Multi-Modal
Systems
By Colin Pawsey
Connectivity in vehicles has come on leaps and bounds over the last few years, and
in a similar vein to the technological explosion we experienced when smart phones
were first introduced, we are now seeing the same scramble to implement new
features into our cars. The paying public are demanding to be connected in their
vehicles, and manufacturers are keen to provide better, more exciting services to
differentiate their brand and stay ahead of the competition.
However, as we have seen in the mobile phone market, just because you can
develop something doesn’t necessarily mean you should. There have been a
multitude of technologies and applications which have swiftly been consigned to the
scrapheap when it became clear they were of no real use to the end user. The
rapidly growing development of connected features in vehicles is putting a huge
emphasis on the development of HMI systems capable of effectively managing
them.
Unlike the mobile market, the automotive market has one very specific and
important factor to consider – the safety of the driver. For consumers to be able to
stay connected and take advantage of new features and applications, it is essential
that the HMI system becomes a sophisticated user interface, able to interact with
the driver, provide detailed information from a number of sources, and actively
improve safety, reducing the chances of an incident.
This is a tall order, and most manufacturers are now coming round to the idea that
one type of user interface is not necessarily the best way forward; but that the HMI