22.1: Invited paper: An integrated HMI concept for driver information and driver assistance systems

In modern vehicles, we are faced with a rapidly increasing flood of information to the driver. In addition to established information systems such as: radio, vehicle monitoring, mobile phones, high class vehicles feature navigation systems almost as a standard today. Currently, driver assistance and collision mitigation and collision avoidance systems are being integrated in vehicles. Future vehicle information systems will provide this huge amount of information mainly in two information centers: amore or less reconfigurable instrument cluster with driver relevant information and a center console display with driver and passenger relevant information. For these systems an appropriate bundling of the information, in conjunction with menu-prompted operating techniques, is essential both, technically and ergonomically. First generation Night vision enhancement systems with image presentation in the dashboard have been introduced into the market. This puts new demands on the Human Machine Interface and Human Machine Interaction as well. In 2006, an updated version of the European Statement of Principles (ESoP) on human machine interface (HMI) for in-vehicle information and communication systems has been published. It replaces the previous version from 1999 and takes new development in consideration.