March 2009
It is almost painful to watch Nissan designer Naoki Yamamoto get out of a test car.
To understand the challenges aging drivers face, the 39-year-old interaction specialist is encased in a proprietary "aging suit" that gives him the mobility and faculties of a driver twice his age.
"Sure, it's uncomfortable," Yamamoto says, "but to really understand a problem you have to feel it in your bones."
At an "Interaction Design Workshop" at the Nissan Design Center in Atsugi, Japan, Yamamoto demonstrated to reporters one of many methods Nissan's Interaction Design team employs in a continuing effort to make future car interiors easier to understand and more comfortable to use.
Interaction design covers all aspects of the interface between people and cars.
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