Exploring User Experience in Autonomous Cars: Best practices for 3D User Interfaces.

Earlier this year I graduated with my master’s thesis “Exploring User Experience in Autonomous Cars – Applying Lean UX to improve the Prototype of an Automotive 3D User Interface in Virtual Reality” at Stuttgart Media University.

The thesis was created in collaboration with Luxoft at their ‘Advanced UX Research and Design’ departement.

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The departement created the first version of the automotive 3D UI for in-car Augmented Reality. This video shows an early version of the virtual prototype:

During the research project, I evaluated and improved the prototype of the 3D UI in terms of User Experience and Usability. A fully redesign was applied and some best-practices for designing 3D UIs in the context of self-driving cars were presented.

If you are interested in this topic, feel free to download my thesis, or get in contact.