ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a case study to explore the use of analytic methods in the IVIS development cycle. The motivation for the work was to understand how to deliver an approach to modelling aspects of IVIS usability, working with inevitable commercial constraints, to provide useful information on which to base design decisions. Analytic methods were selected to meet a requirement for an approach to evaluation which can be applied at an early stage of product development with little demand for resources; however, currently these methods are not widely used in the automotive industry for IVIS evaluation. In this chapter we therefore attempt to explore the utility of analytic methods, including advantages and disadvantages, identify training and application times, and address shortcomings by proposing extensions to one or more of the techniques to increase their utility in a driving context. The findings will be useful to interface designers and evaluators working within the automotive industry, but also in other domains, to support the selection and application of analytic methods, with the overall objective of encouraging early-stage evaluation and design for usability. An overview of the procedures for carrying out the methods is also provided for students, researchers and engineers who are relatively new to the techniques.
