• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.1034-1037
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• 2004

The goal of this paper is to develop a system which provides infotainment services for the healthy life of the elderly. First, we define the infotainment services for the elderly, and then determine the infotainment contents and categories related to the infotainment service. In order to provide the infotainment service, we define several modules as follow: user representation, contents generation, contents personalization, provision and learning manager. Finally we develop a pilot system which is based on the proposed framework.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.793-803
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• 2015

We propose a novel HMI UI/UX for an in-vehicle infotainment system. Our proposed HMI UI comprises multimodal interfaces that allow a driver to safely and intuitively manipulate an infotainment system while driving. Our analysis of a touchscreen interface-based HMI UI/UX reveals that a driver's use of such an interface while driving can cause the driver to be seriously distracted. Our proposed HMI UI/UX is a novel manipulation mechanism for a vehicle infotainment service. It consists of several interfaces that incorporate a variety of modalities, such as speech recognition, a manipulating device, and hand gesture recognition. In addition, we provide an HMI UI framework designed to be manipulated using a simple method based on four directions and one selection motion. Extensive quantitative and qualitative in-vehicle experiments demonstrate that the proposed HMI UI/UX is an efficient mechanism through which to manipulate an infotainment system while driving.

• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 2010

The automotive industry tries to provide infotainment systems to emerging automobiles. Since the infotainment systems require various peripheral devices and network connectivity, legacy operating systems such as Linux and Windows can be much preferred due to its plentiful device drivers and multimedia applications while the operating systems following OSEK standard are used for automotive electronic control units. Thus it is highly desired that the system software supporting infotainment applications can be portable over different legacy operating systems providing unified programming interfaces. The majority of legacy operating systems support POSIX interfaces for application development. MOST is an automotive network standard for infotainment systems. Network Service defines the protocol stacks for MOST control data, which is essential to implement infotainment applications over MOST. In this paper, we suggest a POSIX-based Network Service so that we can utilize legacy device drivers and applications for automotive infotainment systems. We measure the performance of the POSIX-based Network Service and show that its overhead is not significant.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.17-23
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• 2017

A connected car's major factor is connectivity and it can be applied for new concept smart PC hardware and software design method of digital virtual assistance using voice recognition engine at server when infotainment functions are implemented because internet connecting LTE or 5G wireless mobile communication is always is possible. In this paper, a hardware architecture of smart auto-PC and software architecture based on GENIVI platform, and necessary functions are proposed. Also an effective analysis and design method of connected car infotainment system will be presented by showing user requirement analysis using object-oriented method, flowchart and screen design.

• Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.61-69
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• 2018

Driver-specific technology in the automotive field has been commercialized for vehicle accessories, driver memory sheets, and side mirrors. In recent years, the demand for customized technology has expanded to include the user interface of an infotainment system (Infotainment System) and advanced driver support system (Advanced Driver Assistance System), and customized technologies for drivers have been studied. Therefore, this article describes the driver-tailored technology trends being studied in these fields, and examines the major research issues related to future driver-tailored technologies in the automotive field.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.211-225
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• 2023

In the future, infotainment systems are expected to play a pivotal role in mobility ecosystems connecting users and vehicles. This study draws user-experience factors from reviews of Android Auto, a car infotainment application, and analyzes factors that affect satisfaction. The user-experience factors of infotainment have been redefined based on previous studies. To analyze actual user-experience factors, topics are obtained, applied, and interpreted from user discourse through topic modeling. Sentiment analysis and logistic regression are used to determine positive and negative user-experience factors that affect satisfaction. Results of the empirical analysis show that Ease of Use and Understandability are factors that have the greatest impact on satisfaction, and Flexibility, Safety, and Playfulness are factors that have the most critical effect on dissatisfaction. Therefore, this paper suggests ways to improve the satisfaction level of the infotainment system, and establishes a strategy accordingly.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.199-206
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• 2013

Recently, the diverse needs of the drivers for in-vehicle infotainment systems are increasing rapidly. As a result, the infotainment systems are equipped with more convenient and human-friendly high-tech features. In this paper, we designed and implemented in-vehicle multimedia infotainment system based on embedded system that was applied various multimedia to in-vehicles. The proposed system can support independent display on each screen for the multi-channel multimedia source based on one processor(1 CPU). Therefore, our system can be reduced costs compared to other systems. This system not only displays the video and audio data in storage devices but also displays CAM, T-DMB, and DVB-T multimedia contents which are supplied in real-time services. Also, our system could multi-screen displays multimedia data in smart phone using Wi-Fi. We expect that in-vehicle infotainment systems like AVN(Audio video navigation) and RSE(Rear Seat Entertainment) could be used in various applications and reduced costs.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.617-626
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• 2022

With the advent of the autonomous driving era, automobiles are being discussed as an extension of the media. The growth of the in-vehicle infotainment(IVI) system can provide various benefits and values to the driver and passengers. Although the development and research of related technologies is being carried out, there has been no research that specifically identified users' valuation on the main attributes of IVI systems. This study uses conjoint analysis to investigate key attributes and users' preferences. The results indicate that the most important attribute for IVI system is provider, followed by system operation type, main service and content type. For each attribute, consumers prefer a detachable infotainment system provided by a telecommunication company, and prefer to use information-oriented services and content that they have previously consumed. This paper provides practical implications, especially in terms of convergence, that operators can refer to in IVI development.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.179-190
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• 2013

Given the bandwidth assignment for dedicated short range communications for use in vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) and the expected introduction of equipment in the next few years, we elaborate on how VANET can support infotainment services. We define an architectural model for the integration of VANETs and cellular networks, according to a push mode paradigm where VANETs are used primarily to disseminate service announcements and general interest messages. Cooperation with cellular network is addressed by comparing architecture alternatives. A set of information dissemination protocols for VANETs is compared via simulations on a real urban map. Some results from a lab testbed based on IEEE 802.11p boards are presented along with an application developed for Android operating system to demonstrate the concept of the paper.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.29-42
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• 2018

As information technology is more actively incorporated into automobiles, the role of IVIS (In-Vehicle Infotainment System) is becoming increasingly important for providing convenience and entertainment for drivers. However, using the infotainment systems while driving requires task switching and attending to two visual resources simultaneously. We simulated a setting where participants have to drive while interacting with the infotainment system and examined how task difficulty and motor cues impact driver task-switching and driving performance, specifically whether the effects of motor cues differ depending on task difficulty. For the infotainment display, we used two types of number array depending on the congruency between the digit repetition and the chunking unit, while task difficulty was manipulated by the size of the touch-keys. Participants were instructed to dial two numbers on the screen while we recorded the dialing time, lateral position, inter-key press intervals, and steering wheel control. We found that dialing time and lateral position were affected by task difficulty, while the type of number array had no effect. However, the inter-key press intervals between chunked numbers and steering wheel movement both increased when participants had to use an incongruent number array, which indicates that, if number digits are repeated, chunking is ignored by the drivers. Our findings indicate that, in a dual-task condition, motor cues offset the effect of chunking and can effectively signal the timing for task switching.