Car Touch Screen Interface

The goal of this project was to prototype a system of touch screens throughout a vehicle and communicate with one another, linking the driver to all of the passengers in the car. 

A shot of the interface on the driver's screen with the navigation app running.

A shot of the interface on the driver's screen with the navigation app running.

The challenge with this project was that the different screens required different interfaces. The driver would use buttons on the steering wheel to navigate through the system on a landscape-oriented screen, while the passenger would navigate through touch controls on a portrait-oriented screen.

One situation that was prototyped was directions being pushed from the passenger screen to the driver. The idea was that the screens would share information so the driver wouldn't have to take hands off of the wheel to look up an address. The screens would also share warning notifications, such as the seat belt message in this animation.