EB GUIDE http://www.eb-guide-blog.com HMI development and speech dialog design Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:12:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Release of EB GUIDE 5.2.1 upcoming in February 2012 http://www.eb-guide-blog.com/2012/01/19/release-of-eb-guide-5-2-1-upcoming-in-february-2012/ http://www.eb-guide-blog.com/2012/01/19/release-of-eb-guide-5-2-1-upcoming-in-february-2012/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:12:09 +0000 Angela Jelitto http://www.eb-guide-blog.com/?p=1501 Stay tuned  and learn more about the new version EB GUIDE 5.2.1 here on the EB GUIDE blog on Feb, 3rd.

 

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Pay us a visit if you are around. Here is the floor plan.

 

 

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We are providing a couple of minor bugfixes.
For details please check the release notes with details about the fixed issues.

No migration is necessary for your 4.5 projects!

 

EB GUIDE Studio 4.5.2 is available for our customers on the EB Command.

Please contact us if you want to know more about version 4.5.2 in particular or EB GUIDE in general.

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The article analyzes the challenges and opportunities of controlling in-car infotainment systems via human speech. The article focuses on multi-modal human machine interfaces (HMI) where haptic+visual and speech dialog work hand in hand. The article gives a short overview about how multi-modal dialogs can be modeled with EB GUIDE as an feasible approach to tackle the challenges of the future.

The full content of the article  is available as ePaper on the website of  Hanser Automotive:

http://www.hanser-automotive.de/heftarchiv/epaper-2011.html on page 24.

Note: The article is available in German language only.


 

 

 

 

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31 January – 02 February 2012 EB GUIDE Studio 5 basic training, Erlangen (Germany)

27 – 29. March 2012 EB GUIDE Studio 5 basic training, Erlangen (Germany)

17 – 19 April 2012 EB GUIDE GTF 5 training, Erlangen (Germany)

22 – 24 May 2012 EB GUIDE Studio 5 basic training, Erlangen (Germany)

24 – 26 July 2012 EB GUIDE Studio 5 basic training, Erlangen (Germany)

16 – 18 October 2012 EB GUIDE GTF 5 training, Erlangen (Germany)

27 – 29 November 2012 EB GUIDE Studio 5 basic training, Erlangen (Germany)

Register for them on our seminar registration page.

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Get an insight into the new EB GUIDE version 5.2, view projects created with EB GUIDE as well as insight into the automotive HMI research project .

Hear our Guest Speaker

Mike Hichme, Manager of Infotainment and User Interface Group at General Motors

Interact with EB GUIDE experts from EB during our Technical Q&A session

Visit the exhibition and network with other OEM’s, Tier Ones, chip vendors as well as EB GUIDE experts and developers during coffee breaks and at the cocktail hour in the evening

 More information will be posted here soon.

Please check out EB Automotive for the latest information about other EB activities in the automotive market.

 

This event is free of charge. Please RSVP to guarantee your reservation by clicking here

 

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Time: 20th October 2011, 12:00-18:00hrs

Place: Erlangen,Germany

 

Agenda

12:00 Check-in with welcome snacks, exhibition with demos and time for networking

12:30 EB GUIDE 5.2 release – What’s new? Outlook on the EB GUIDE roadmap

13:30 Technical deep-dive presentations about EB GUIDE features

14:30 Coffee break and exhibition with demos and time for networking

15:15 Prof. Zühlke, DFKI: The automotive HMI research project

15:45 Jim Bridgewater, Freescale: HMI design on Freescale i.MX series

16:15 Yoshio Sato, Renesas: Optimized HMI design with Renesas OpenVG

16:45 Questions & answers

From 17:00 on Franconian snacks, Exhibition with demos and time for networking

 

During breaks and after the presentations you will have time to network and exchange ideas with EB GUIDE experts and our developers.

 

We are also happy to announce the first EB GUIDE Users Days in Japan and in the USA taking place as follows:

• Tokyo, Japan, October 26th, 2011

• Detroit, USA, November 3rd, 2011

 

If you have any questions about the event please feel free to contact us.

We look forward to your email registration via e-mail.

 

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EB GUIDE Users Days

 

Dates and locations

October 20th, 2011 in Erlangen, Germany
October 26th, 2011 in Tokyo, Japan
November 3rd, 2011 in Detroit, USA

For more information and agenda please click on the date of the Users Day which you are interested in.

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Benefit from the new features in EB GUIDE 5.2:

  • Animate your view transitions: You can now animate view changes to create smooth HMI flows.

  • Model enhanced visual effects: You can now add custom OpenGL-ES2.0 shaders to EB GUIDE. In this way you can now manipulate textures, use cube maps or control the light source.

  • Reuse your widgets: You can now export and import widget templates in order to reuse your work in new projects.

  • Show arabic texts: You can now display dynamic arabic texts rendered using the bidirectional algorithm as described in the Unicode Standard Annex #9.

  • Use OpenType fonts: In addition to TrueType fonts you can now use OpenType fonts to display texts.

  • Get your HMI translations done: The maximum pixel width and height for all language dependent texts are now exported into Excel as additional help for translators.

  • Use enhanced math support in GtfScript: GtfScript now supports exponential, logarithmic, square root, and x to the power of y mathematical functions.

Plugins, known already from previous versions, are now as well available for EB GUIDE version 5. Both are available as a separate plugins.

  • Connectivity Extension
    Interact with CAN right away.     Connect your GTF simulation via Peak CAN-USB, EB 6100 or CANoe to a CAN network or simulation. The Connectivity Extension is available as a separate plugin.

  • Photoshop Plugin
    Import your graphics as fast as possible:     You can use the Photoshop plugin to read and process Adobe Photoshop™ files, extract the images, and assign the content in an instant to widget templates in EB GUIDE 5.2.

 

EB GUIDE 5.2 is available for our customers on the EB Command.

Please contact us if you want to know more about version 5.2 in particular or EB GUIDE in general.

 

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We wrote a whitepaper about a functional safety concept in combination with EB GUIDE 5.
It describes how safety relevant areas may be tagged with a future EB GUIDE Studio 5.x version and how this information may be used to configure a safety monitor component.
Read the full version in the EB GUIDE Forum (in case you have an EB GUIDE license and are a registered user of the forum) or contact us via e-mail.


Here is a short excerpt:

Whitepaper Functional Safety in automotive user interfaces


EB GUIDE 5 in the context of ASIL



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abstract


In this document we highlight the impact of ISO-26262 on automotive HMIs, especially in the instrument cluster area.
We begin with the new opportunities provided by fully reconfigurable cluster instruments. Then we review the consequences to software development with regard to functional safety.
Finally, the document outlines a concept of how to use HMI solutions like EB GUIDE GTF within an Automotive Safety Integrity Level (ASIL) relevant environment and still exploit the tooling benefits of EB GUIDE Studio.

Reconfigurable cluster instruments


New flexibility


As displays in the cluster instrument area expand into the field of fully reconfigurable clusters, the conventional gauges and warning lights are replaced by HMI that are fully modeled virtual solutions. Display resolutions are above 1280×480 pixels, which provides enough room to slide away the virtual gauges, and use the display space for driver assistance systems, the navigation map or media control. Different screen configurations for highway and city traffic become possible. You could even think of certain customizations the driver can apply to the screen to be displayed for the next 100.000 miles. All this will go hand in hand with the OEM branding of this very central display surface in the car.

Safety related on-screen elements


Some elements of the cluster instrument are only informative while others are crucial for on-road safety. For example, a wrongly displayed gear indicator after starting the engine could obviously cause an accident because the car reverses when the driver expected to move forward. Other warning indicators for other safety related systems like airbag warnings are just as critical and related to safety issues

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