Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

equire special equipment. While final testing and approval
should be up to automotive experts, some preliminary
measurement tasks should be passed to 3 rd Party
Developers. As quality control is an iterative process, this
would speed up the deployment process. Therefore, we
believe that it is necessary to provide concrete checklists
and distraction measurement tools with a software
development kit. 3 rd Party Developers should be able to
apply these preliminary measurements without additional
hardware.
To further improve driver safety, workload managers might
be included in IVI systems [13] [14]. Locally executed
high-level applications are well-suited for such concepts
because they allow for sophisticated control at runtime.
With workload managers in place, it might be possible to
prioritize and schedule interactions not only of native IVI
applications but also those of foreign 3 rd party applications.
CONCLUSION
In this position paper, we presented arguments for a Web
Technology based middleware that allows for fine-grained
integration of mobile devices into cars. Firstly, we
presented alternative solutions and possible counter
arguments. Then we described in detail the benefits of an
open and standardized high-level middleware platform. By
utilizing such a platform, OEMs would benefit from a
broader support by 3 rd Party Developers and from a high
compatibility to existing mobile platforms. 3 rd Party
Developers would benefit from commonly known
development practices and existing tools.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Our work is supported by the C3World project, Lower
Saxony, Germany. We would like to thank all our project
partners from the C3World project and all our colleagues
from the Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik for their support.
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