Driving%20With%20Passengers%20The%20Group%20Experience

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Driving With PassengersThe Group Experience

• Lisa Villemure
• HCI Process Theory CMU Fall 2001

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Project Idea

• Improve the quality of the driving experience for
  drivers
• and passengers who are traveling together

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Motivation

• Long distance traveling
• disrupts daily routine
• presents safety concerns
• Technological assumptions
• Sensing physical and emotional
• Wireless connectivity
• GPS tracking
• How to successfully respond to needs of multiple
  passengers?
• Product opportunities?

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Approach

• Broad exploration and research
• Conducting a literature review
• Existing technology for the vehicle
• Group dynamics and behavior
• Researching interactions between drivers and
  passengers
• Identifying new product opportunities
• Developing and illustrating scenarios of use
• Abstracting technical specifications for future
  development

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Timeline

• September / October
• Literature review existing technology and group
  dynamics
• Research driver/passenger interactions
• November
• Scenario building and illustrations
• December
• Abstraction of technical specifications
• Reporting results and findings of the project

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Questions