HMI to Exploit the Potential of Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems

The complexity of in-vehicle interaction systems is constantly growing. However, thanks to the increased availability of sensing systems in the driving environment and communication infrastructure able to radically change the interaction modalities at driving, the existing situation is likely to progressively turn into a cooperative scenario, in which the vehicle and the driver share tasks at perceptual, decisional and control level. This paper describes an innovative human-machine interaction paradigm developed in the SAFE STRIP project to exploit the potential of C-ITS to implement new mobility paradigms, to turn the traditional vehicle perspective into a more efficient traffic perspective. In order to achieve this challenging objective, the overall HMI strategy has been re-designed, to foster the adoption of a new, more active role of the driver and the other road users. The preliminary prototypes developed in the SAFE STRIP project are also described in this paper