1. HMI on Sensitivity Functions Approach: Case of Non-Visual Senses Malliaros Ioannis July 2010 Development of Integrated Systems for Smart Interiors

2. Project This research is part of the Project “Development of Integrated Systems for Smart Interiors” under the task “Interfaces between humans and electronic/mechanical Devices”. EDAM PhD Candidate: Ioannis Malliaros Supervisor 1: Mihail FontulIST Supervisor 2:Elsa HenriquesIST Advisor 1: Qi D. Van Eikema HommesMIT Advisor 2: Paraskevas PapanikosUniversity of the Aegean Advisor 3: Lia Patricio FEUP

3. Objectives To establish connections between the Product and Process design with the “feeling” evoked by non-visual senses (kinesthetic, acoustic and haptic). Bring a further understanding on the interaction between the user and the interfaces through non-visual senses (kinesthetic, acoustic and haptic). Affiliate companies

4. Defining the problem In-Car Interfaces (ICI) manufacturing industries aims to address the proper/wanted/expected “feeling” OEM (client) decompose the feeling into a set of specifications (sense parameters) fulfilling quantitative specifications lack of knowledge among specification’s interactions the uncertainty of achieving the proper/wanted/expected “feeling” is high OEM companies look forward for something more than the fulfilling of requirements. They expect a certain “feeling” to be achieved when the final customer interacts with the device

5. Research outcomes The expected result will be a valid tool (framework, methodology, model etc) for the ICI manufacturing companies to achieve the expected feeling evoked by non-visual senses as request by OEM clients. For both research and industrial application purposes, this research will bring: a further understanding of the interactions among the parameters of each sense (a model of each sense) and also of the interactions among all the non-visual senses (the final and integrative model). The aim of this research is to establish a methodology which will contribute to attain the expected feeling, evoked by non-visual senses, as requested by the OEM companies.

6. Research steps 1/2 To develop a methodology for each non-visual sense with the following goals : -Analysis of the requirements for interaction between the user and the interface for each non-visual sense (kinesthetic, Acoustical, Haptic) -Identification of each sense parameters -Analysis of how interactions among sense parameters affect the desired feeling

7. Research steps 2/2 To develop a general methodology merging all the non-visual senses -Analysis of the non-visual senses as a system -Integration of the procedures for each non-visual sense into a holistic approach -Analysis of how interactions among non- visual senses affect the general feeling

8. Research framework

9. Methodology for the kinesthetic feeling measure the “perceived” kinesthetic feeling Capture human responses Measure the physical behavior of an interface’s push button Instrumental measurements Predict a “perceived” by using “measured” sense parameters 1 st experiment 2 nd experiment Identification of possible sense parameters

10. Conclusions This research proposes a methodology to analyze the interaction among kinesthetic sense parameters for in-car interfaces. The usual kinesthetic parameters in the ICI industry was considered as input for the proposed modeling process. The modeling process used statistical analysis to predict the perceived kinesthetic feeling as a result of interactions between measured kinesthetic parameters. So far and contrary to what is usually accepted in the industry, the results indicate that only one perceived KINESTHETIC parameter ( in this case, the Pre- Load) could be reasonably correlated with the engineering specifications.”