From Interaction Analysis to Interactive Prototyping: Exploring Retrofit UX with Unity
Presenter: Nahid Abdolrahmanpour
Date: Feb 6th
Time: 10 AM, 1 PM
Location: Teams Meeting - Please register to recieve the link tomorrow morning.
LATECOMERS WILL NOT BE ADMITTED once the presentation has begun.
Abstract:
Modern vehicle interfaces are increasingly defined by dynamic behavior rather than static layout. In retrofit vehicles, this shift creates unique design challenges, as digital systems are introduced into environments originally built for mechanical interaction. Understanding how timing, feedback, motion, and driver attention shape user experience requires moving beyond visual design toward interaction-centered exploration.
This presentation builds on prior interaction analysis of a retrofitted vehicle interface and focuses on the next step: interactive prototyping. Using Unity as a real-time environment, the talk explores how interface behavior can be modeled to study responsiveness, feedback timing, glanceability, and cognitive load in driving contexts. Rather than treating Unity as a technical tool, it is positioned as an interaction laboratory where UX concepts become observable and testable through simulation.
The session demonstrates how real-time prototyping helps designers understand the relationship between user action, system response, and perception. By linking interaction theory with practical modeling, the presentation highlights how dynamic exploration supports safer, more intuitive retrofit vehicle interfaces and provides a bridge between UX analysis and experiential design.
Biography:
I am a PhD student at the University of Windsor working in graph machine learning and intelligent information systems. My research focuses on dynamic link prediction, graph transformers, and integrating large language models (LLMs) with graph neural networks.
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