Expanding V2X with V2DUIs: Distributed User Interfaces for Media Consumption in the Vehicle-to-Everything Era

Modern in-vehicle infotainment systems connect to drivers' personal digital devices, such as smartphones, to facilitate calls, notifications delivery, and access to online media and resources while driving. This communications process facilitates distributed user interfaces (DUIs) and allows casual in-vehicle interactions. However, such functionalities of modern vehicles still lack the extensive capabilities of state-of-the-art DUIs, which can offer a variety of interaction opportunities through features such as migration, redirection, adaptation, and granularity, among others. In this work, we explore DUIs in the specific context of smart vehicles, and introduce V2DUIs (Vehicle-to-DUIs) as a new addition to the V2X (Vehicle-to-Everything) family of smart vehicle concepts.