Progress: Oct 21-28

Two Online Meetings/Brainstorming Sessions:

10/24/06 (PDF)

10/26/06 (PDF)



The world's lamest base Prototype: Draft (ppt)

IDIA 612 - Solving the City Parking Problem

Research Outline
October 7^th, 2006

The Locus of Attention While Using the City Parking Interface
Conducted by Deborah Gorski

This area of research will focus on the human locus of attention, particularily while operating the City Parking Problem interface. Research found so far include:

• Attending to the Peripheral World While Driving - Crundall, Underwood, and Chapman - Applied Cognitive Psychology 2002.
• Cell Phone-Induced Failures of Visual Attention During Simulated Driving - Strayer, Drews and Johnston - Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

Interface Analysis of Mobile Technology
Conducted by Shani Matthews

The “Solving the City Parking Problem” project will address the development of an interface that uses multiple devices to track available parking places in the city. Research in the interface analysis of mobile technology will study the interfaces and human factors affected by the interfaces of mobile devices. Devices in this area of research will include cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and global positioning systems (GPS). Two questions will be answered with this research:

1) How can the current interfaces of today’s mobile devices effectively notify users of parking spaces?

2) What factors of today’s mobile device interfaces might prevent the City Parking Problem interface from providing an optimal, satisfactory performance (i.e. time to learn, time to execute, lack of reliability (bad cell phone signal?))

Existing Parking Systems
Conducted by Olivia Phillips

This preliminary area of research will analyze existing systems that manage city-wide parking including: parking meters, parking attendant stations, etc. We intend to study existing systems to help facilitate a larger knowledge-base and more research for our project.

Research for all areas is still pending.