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. 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 admitted that traveling without children made them happier. Besides, driving with children also possibly compromise driving safety. The authors further executed user research to understand real users and their travel experience, especially with entertainment devices. As a result, the authors identified four significant pain points parents have been encountering. With the findings and insights, the authors 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.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50523-3
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.
• Corporate Authors:

  Springer International Publishing

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• Authors:
  • Wu, Hsin-Man
  • Qian, Zhenyu (Cheryl)
  • Chen, Yingjie (Victor)
• Conference:
  • 22nd HCI International Conference (HCII 2020)
  • Location: Copenhagen , Denmark
  • Date: 2020-7-19 to 2020-7-24
• Publication Date: 2020-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Edition: 1
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 429-444
• Monograph Title: HCI in Mobility, Transport, and Automotive Systems. Automated Driving and In-Vehicle Experience Design: Second International Conference, MobiTAS 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part I
• Serial:
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • Volume: 12212
  • Publisher: Springer Cham
  • ISSN: 0302-9743
  • Serial URL: https://www.springer.com/series/558

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile travel; Children; Information display systems; Parents; Passengers; System design
• Subject Areas: Design; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01884044
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9783030505226
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 31 2023 10:16AM