Presentation title

The strategic requirements of Application Services for new generation cars

Authors

Antonio Di Tecco, Pierfrancesco Foglia, Cosimo Antonio Prete

Institution(s)

University of Florence

Presentation type

Technical presentation

Abstract

The automotive market is witnessing a real revolution stemming from significantly improving vehicle safety features while promoting also new entertainment services. The ongoing revolution is far bigger than what is perceivable nowadays: the unstoppable and incremental advancement of autonomous cars will drive this innovation and consequently, entertainment and personal assistance services will become essential for car passengers.

This perspective introduces a pioneering application scenario as compared to those already established in mobile development. There are new product requirements and special conditions to consider. Firstly, the presence of multiple passengers sharing the same space, as well as the increasing availability of personal interaction devices (e.g., smartwatches, etc), will create innovative social perspectives, R&D challenges, and market opportunities. New interaction models could be exploited to develop specialized applications that will be informed of the passengers’ experience and situations, including personal interests and attractions, interactions within and outside the car environment, behavioral reactions to stimuli that change along the journey.

In this presentation, we report our work in defining key requirements for multimedia services of the new generation of vehicles deriving from some industrial reports of the automotive sector. Starting from these requirements, we will identify how they can be met by imagining to create the service with an App and a platform for running Apps. In particular, the platform will have to provide the most important functions to design the Apps, limiting the programming effort. In addition, all the requirements that affect the quality perceived by the user, and therefore strategic for the specific market of the App, must be met by the App. All this together with market conditions will allow us to propose a complete architecture. This activity is carried out by a research group in Embedded Systems at the University of Pisa.

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