This week we bring you detailed coverage of the DVN-Interior Deep Dive held at San Francisco shortly ago. Interior lighting is no longer exiled to the fringes of awareness in the vehicle lighting community, but there’s still a lot to imagine and develop. The Deep Dive session confirmed that light is part of the HMI system, and can simplify understanding and usage. Light has a role in safety, too; together with sound and haptics, it can provide more reliable alerts to the driver in milliseconds.
Another interesting revelation from the session is what we have called so far ‘psycho-lighting’, in reference to psycho-acoustics, already familiar to audio engineers. Light perception can be different form person to person, depending on age, social milieu, health, and just individual differences. Objective measurement doesn’t represent full reality, and each individual will have a different perception in terms of intensity, color, and reaction time to lighting stimulus. That’s an interior lighting dimension which needs to be further investigated within the overall umbrella of user experience and human factors.
Don’t miss this week’s Coffee Corner, presenting a design perspective on this year’s IAA motor show, and how the industry (and the shows generally) are morphing from monofocus on automobiles into a more diverse mobility system.
We’re happy to have you in the DVN Interior community, and looking forward to seeing you all at our forthcoming events!
Sincerely yours,
