Augmented reality concept

While augmented reality interfaces have had their moment on smartphones, the automobile windshield is a potentially more useful place to overlay contextual information. Mercedes' Dynamic and Intuitive Control Experience (DICE) offers a look at how the manufacturer envisions getting everything from traffic data to information about passing landmarks. The concept ditches buttons and touch screens in favor of gesture-based controls that communicate information while driving. At CES, convention-goers were able to get a feel for the system in a virtual reality cube set up by Mercedes. While the concept might seem far off, in another hall at CES display manufacturers were showing their first prototypes of clear glass screens capable of full LED display—the missing link to making a concept like this real.

http://www.coolhunting.com/tech/mercedes-dice.php

Usability for car dashboard displays for elder drivers

An approach is to investigate the use of automotive user interface technology to help elders drive safely for longer periods of time. Better sensing and display technologies can be placed in the car to augment the diligence that an individual needs while driving. This can help audiences like elder drivers with issues such as slowed reaction time and visual acuity. In addition, instrument panel  display design can be explored to help attract and manage attention, make information easier to interpret, and facilitate the cognitive process of making sense of information and acting accordingly.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sjunikim/download/chi2011_dashboard_paper1253-kim1.pdf

Gesture Panel

The Gesture Panel is a highly customisable desktop input device featuring 
light and haptic feedback. It is intended to be a 'blank slate' upon which
a power user can easily and simply build a custom input device to suit their
workflow.

It allows the user to lazily issue commands and make fine adjustments without
requiring any of the concentration or precision that a keyboard, mouse,
graphics tablet or general-purpose laptop touchpad would typically demand.

http://sleepygeek.org/projects.gesturepanel

The 3D Gesture control technology In work of Iphone5

The greatest mobile market apple has introduced new 3D gesture control in work for iphone . This is really an exciting feature of iphone 5 . This apps is not sci-fi.Apple  is surely looking to integrate  recently purchased patents into apple company’s new devices.According to many results the new technology 3D Gesture Control In Works for iPhone 5 would help iphone to release in the near future iPad and iPhone controlled by gesture this would help user to manipulate media, edit video without the need of touching the devices, with just a flip of the hand.


The gestures will help to interact with the devices would be actually a little more complex than the other in this the hand motion have to follow all the basic geometrically shapes, symbols or letters or even user-defined patterns. A leaked picture would help the new patents   by detalling apples to a to a range of actions that will be controlled by gestures as making selections, pointing, and grouping objects.

Lost in Navigation: Who Designs These Instrument Panels?

In his biweekly rant, PM’s senior automotive editor goes beyond beefing with body design and tries to find navigate his nefarious dashboard.


http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/4237791

 

Dashboards that promise to do more than inform

Brad Gieske, a designer who works on interior electronics at Chrysler, said the concept is more about making the car connected than it is about any particular piece of hardware. He said that designers were frustrated both by the dull rectangular display screens in current autos and by the size and format limits of smart phones.

“We wanted to take the square out of the center console,” Mr. Gieske said. “We wanted to make it about technology, but at the same time we wanted to make it beautiful, to make it elegant.”

The dashboard controls use technology that recognizes gestures such as touching and dragging a fingertip across the panel; the display and the animations of a virtual trackball control are the work of Chrysler. The basic patent behind the touch-screen hardware comes from Nartron Corporation of Reed City, Mich., a maker of touch screens for automotive, military and consumer electronics uses, said Norman Rautiola, Nartron’s founder. Mr. Rautiola said he was certain that a system like this would rapidly find its way into new cars. It is likely to be far cheaper in the long run than mechanical buttons and switches, he said.

Existing dashboards designs