1. Searching Digital Audio Broadcasting radio stations: Usability and safetyissues for in-vehicledevices 1 M.Dibitonto1, M.Camilli1.2, A.Vona1, R.Grimaldi1, F. Di Nocera1,2, C.M. Medaglia1 1 C.A.T.T.I.D. – Sapienza University of Rome 2 L.A.F.C. – Dept. of Psychology -Sapienza University of Rome CHItaly 2011
7. What is DAB? Digital Audio Broadcasting System is a digital technology for broadcasting radio station with an high quality of service. DAB+ is the most recent evolution and adds new multimedia services. 3 CHItaly 2011
10. Test new type of contents/ formatContents and usability are key factors to make DAB appealing for a broad public 5 CHItaly 2011
11. Our focus In Italy 15mlns (42%) of users listens to analogue radio in their cars.* In this context introduction of new interactive system may affect the driving performance. Usability, User Experience and Safety are key factors to correctly design DAB+ services for an in vehicle context. *Menduni, 2003 6 CHItaly 2011
12. How wewillsearch a station with DAB? With DAB the number of radio stationswillincrease andsearchingcouldbecome a difficult task. DAB+ can supportserching/browsing station with: SL = station description EL = name of the Ensemble PT-1 = global genre of a station PT-2 = sub-genre Whichoneis the mosteffective, efficient and the best in terms of UX, usability and safety? 7 CHItaly 2011
13. The prototype 3.5 inch - 480x320px A prototypehasbeenimplemented to test differentsearchstrategies: name– PT1 (genre) – PT2 (sub-genre) 8 CHItaly 2011
14. Test environment Driving simulator Eyetracker DAB prototype Vibration feedback steeringwheel Camera for video recording The test environment to simulate an in-vehicle context . 9 CHItaly 2011
16. 8 participants (2F – 6M, age 28.12, sd 3.18) A pre-test questionnaire A post-test questionnaire Analisys of eyefixations 11 CHItaly 2011
17. Results Resultsshowed no significantdifference in task durationwhile the analysis of eye scanning pattern showedthatuserspendless time lookingat the receiverwhileusing the PT-2 station search. 12 CHItaly 2011
19. Conclusion and future works DAB will deeply change radio and the way the people interact with it giving new opportunities and challenges With DAB the number of radio station will increase and the user will face an higher complexity Generally the results showed that categorization of the program could help user searching a station. It seems to be particularly useful in automotive domain where hands-free implications could be critical for user safety The quali-quantitative approach used showed to be a suitable method to assess the usability of DAB technology Future studies will be aimed at testing the reliability of these results with a larger sample of users 14 CHItaly 2011
20. Thank you for your attention! Questions and (hopefully) answers. 15 CHItaly 2011