Mixed-Reality Environment based on Haptic Control System for a tractor cabin design review

Current trend in the automotive field tends to offer an increasing number of functionalities that are aimed at controlling the vehicle and the number of control devices and the kind of interaction becomes more complex. This could be responsible of drivers’ distraction caused by the time required to drivers to look at the information displayed. An approach to address these problems consists of minimizing the number of physical functional elements in favor of a single interactive graphical interface driven by few commands. In this paper we present a Mixed-Reality environment we have implemented for the validation of the re-design of a tractor cabin.