Intelligent In-Car-Infotainment System: A Prototypical Implementation

Abstract

Over the last years, the automotive research community was mainly focused onto the popular field of research known as autonomous driving. Essentially, most of the work is dealing with the challenge to sense the environment in a proper way in order to autonomously control a car without any intervention by a human. Thus, in the future passengers will operate the on-board computers for entertainment purposes only. But our vision of an intelligent car is not only made of the aforementioned self-controlled driving feature, but also of an in-car-infotainment system that acts autonomously based on the users needs. By detecting environment-dependent regularities of use, an intelligent in-car-infotainment system would be able to proactively automate complex interaction tasks that are supposed to happen anyway. In this demo we present a prototype of an intelligent in-car-infotainment system that adapts itself based on the context-dependent daily routines of the user. An newly developed real-world driving simulator is used in conjunction with the prototype to simulate the environment of the car in order to let the user experience the personalization in real-time.