In-Vehicle Technology

Research on the devices and systems drivers use inside the vehicle: phones, displays, navigation, infotainment, and in-car voice assistants.

What's here. Work treating the technology itself as the object of study: mobile phones (handheld and hands-free), in vehicle displays, nav systems, infotainment, generative ai voice assistants, and smartphone integration carplay aa. The emphasis is on what these systems are and how drivers use them behind the wheel.

What isn't here.

• distraction as a construct: glance behavior, visual and cognitive load, and the attentional cost of using a device — Driver Distraction. Phone and infotainment research splits along this line. The device and how drivers operate it is here; studies framed around the distraction mechanism rather than the technology are in Driver Distraction, which is the largest single overlap with this category.
• interface design and evaluation: how a display, warning, or voice interface should be built, timed, and presented — Human-Machine Interaction. in vehicle displays here means the display as installed equipment and drivers' use of it. Design of the presentation itself, across visual, auditory, and haptic modalities, is Human-Machine Interaction, the neighbouring category in the same area.
• laws and enforcement aimed at driver device use, including handheld bans and their evaluation — Policy & Enforcement. Legislation, penalties, enforcement programs, and regulatory assessment of phone use are filed under Policy & Enforcement, not with the device research.