The designLED team joined colleagues from Hella Behr, at a
European HMI industry workshop, with designLED promoting the FCE User
Experience value proposition.
Dr Derek Peden, Innovation Manager at FORVIA designLED,
presented “HMI Personalisation by Lighting and Display Technologies”, at Car
HMI Europe, held in Berlin on 18-20th June 2023.
The conference consisted of representatives from 16 OEMs
(including Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Stellantis and Ford), Tier1 and 2 companies,
plus leading industry, market and technology experts from around the world.
Workshops and technical presentations held over the 2.5 days, covered
human-machine interface (HMI) solutions, from autonomous sensing of the
interior and exterior environment, the interface presented to users (UI), the
HMI software stack and the electronics and interfaces required to deliver the
quality user experience (UX) expected by all users, drivers and passengers. In
addition to oral presentations, the conference featured networking
opportunities, peer workshops on challenges facing the entire automotive sector
and a busy exhibition hall.
Derek presented a FORVIA perspective and recent activities
in demonstrating HMI requirements for a high quality cockpit experience, use
cases surrounding personalisation, exploring how we can create value through
technology that matters to people - enhancing interiors with light with purpose
to make the space more interactive, more comfortable, safer, and even
entertaining. The FCE cockpit experience
value proposition, from immersive display to perceptual image processing and
lower resolution dynamic LED backlighting for communication was central to the
presentation illustrating the potential impact LED displays can have on
personalising space, uses cases and potential experiences.
In addition to the presentation, the event included
participation smaller group workshops of 10-15 attendees to debate and discuss
challenges facing the entire automotive sector, including,
·
“What is the future direction of automotive HMI
input methods?”, discussing smart surfaces and the role of voice-driven AI;
·
“The
future of HMIs beyond large in-vehicle displays”, determining that we are
approaching “peak display”, with potential cognitive overload and a need to
refocus on the user and technologies available to meet user requirements;
·
“Does interior lighting have a bright future in
automotive user experience?”, discussing the challenges and opportunities in
ambient lighting, functional lighting and automotive interior lighting under
L4-L6 autonomous driving conditions.
In this third case, determined there is a positive future
when care is taken to design high quality ambient and functional lighting. This
best experience lies at the intersection of communication, visibility, user
mood/psychology, with lighting personalisation by the user and the vehicle
adapting to the local environment.
Lighting is increasingly becoming one of the most evolving segments in
Automotive electronics. Starting with pure illumination tasks and simple
signalling functions, light today ever more is used for comfort and well-being
in the car, with hundreds of coloured LEDs facilitating dynamic lighting
effects. Initially for premium models, the interior light even will also be
adapted to the surrounding environment with the help of Artificial
Intelligence.
With the trend to more driver assistance systems on the way
in the self-driving car, light in the vehicle is also increasingly taking on
functional tasks, for example to warn the driver of critical traffic
situations. All in all, an extensive and growing array of tasks that lighting,
displays and HMI will have to perform in new vehicles, some of which are
already on the road.
Original author : Dr Derek Peden, Innovation Manager, at
designLED
