BLOKCAR: A Children Entertainment System to Enrich and Enhance Family Car Travel Experience.

The research proposes an in-car entertainment system for children to relieve their in-car boredom and further enhance the travel experience. While more and more attention has already been paid on human-car interaction, there is still minimal research considering the interactions between back seat passengers and the car. Many parents reported the quality time they spent with their children in the car was invaluable [7, 23]. Due to the limited space of a vehicle, car traveling is a perfect opportunity to pull a family together and build the memory. However, the travel experience with children is usually not so pleasant for the parents. More than 60% of parents in the survey [6] admitted that traveling without children made them happier. Besides, driving with children also possibly compromise driving safety. We further executed user research to understand real users and their travel experience, especially with entertainment devices. As a result, we identified four significant pain points parents have been encountering. With the findings and insights, we generated the designs iteratively and finally proposed a system composed of three major components – 1. Mobile Application, 2. Interactive Block - BlokCar and 3. AR Interactive Window, to solve the problems, and more importantly, to enhance the riding experience for the children.