ARS VEHO: Augmented Reality System for VEHicle Operation

The increasing use of personal in-car technologies has created more opportunities for driver distraction. Communication and navigational systems exact a high cognitive price for the assistance they provide to the driver. Starting from existing research in the areas of augmented reality and context-aware systems, this paper proposes a system designed to assist the driver in the primary task while mitigating the effects of secondary systems. The core of the system includes a calculated interruptibility metric, which in conjunction with a driver profile system allows the system to postpone or eliminate secondary tasks when the primary task demands the driver’s full attention. The navigational system’s output is seamlessly integrated into the driver’s field of vision, eliminating the need to shift between 2D and 3D spatial representations or translate audio information to a spatial context. This paper presents the problem in detail, the proposed solution and excerpts from the software model.