HMI blog

In this post, we’ll explore how recent innovations can boost your HMI models to the next level and “wow” your end users with new, exciting features.

Attendees of this year’s CarHMi in Berlin had a unique opportunity to experience EB innovation first-hand via an interactive infotainment demo. Judges of the annual award ceremony were equally impressed, naming the EB GUIDE Android-based cockpit demonstrator one of the “Most Innovative HMI Feature” nominees of the year.

The latest version of EB GUIDE marks the introduction of big features such as Namespaces and Multifont support, which will influence the structure of your future projects. However, we also included improvements to the overall handling and interaction with EB GUIDE.

In previous versions of EB GUIDE, modelers were creating monolithic HMI models containing every functionality that was expected from the user into one big project. With the latest version of EB GUIDE we provide the possibility to divide the functionality, users expect in an automotive HMI, into several smaller projects. Each of these smaller projects can then focus on one functionality which can easily be maintained, developed and tested.

You’re now able to split your model into smaller pieces that help you organize it and work together simultaneously on different parts of your model – we call those pieces namespaces.

The multifont support offers the possibility to create a user-defined font object inside of your model. You define a default font, which acts as the base font that you want to use and add as many additional font entries as you need to a prioritized list. These font entries cover a defined range of Unicode characters.

We’re pleased to announce maintenance updates for EB GUIDE. With today’s bugfix release, the overall system performance is improved. We’ve also added new traces that allow you to measure shader compilation.

In February, EB exhibited at the Industrial Vehicle Technology (iVT) Expo in Cologne, Germany, showing how our automated driving and user experience solutions are benefitting next-generation industrial vehicles.

As is often the case, new features come with new issues. This is also true for our freshly released version of EB GUIDE. For the last few weeks, after collecting your feedback, we are pleased to announce the maintenance release.

Part II of this blog post introduces further EB GUIDE Script functions for reading items from the JSON configuration, versioning, and focus management.