Design-led exploration of indoor parking: an industry perspective

Abstract

For many people, parking in large indoor venues can be a challenging and demanding task. Advanced positioning technologies and accurate indoor maps offer technical solutions for developing an indoor navigation system that helps drivers with the challenges of indoor parking. However, in order to develop a meaningful indoor navigation system, we first need to understand the experiential context of indoor parking. To do so, we investigated the indoor parking experience through explorative studies and design-led explorations. In this paper, we present the design process and the prototyping activities involved to gain an understanding of the indoor parking context. Furthermore, we reflect on how design-led research has helped us to iteratively reframe the research question and we present some of the relevant findings to inspire future academic or industrial research on this topic.