Establishing Design Parameters for Large Stereoscopic 3D Dashboards

The amount of available information and functionality in cars is increasing rapidly. Academia and industry are working tirelessly on technologies to integrate both in automotive user experience while providing high usability and safety. A large stereoscopic 3D dashboard could offer binocular disparity as a depth cue and by this, support these efforts by allowing novel techniques for adaptive and situation-aware in-car user interfaces. However, humans capability to perceive stereoscopic 3D depends on several factors, among them is the zone of comfort. In this paper, we present preliminary results of our design space exploration in form of the zone of comfort. In a user study we established a depth budget ranging from 23.8 ± 2.9cm in front of the dashboard to 22.7 ± 5.5cm behind it.