Webinar recap: Ideation to implementation: developing ML tech to change driver behavior

Oleg Lebedyn
Manuel Gattinger
James Brown
Dr. Pavel Negadailov

by Oleg Lebedyn, Manuel Gattinger, James Brown, Dr. Pavel Negadailov

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When faced with a technically involved project, how do you get it from the concept stage to a solution in action? That’s one of the significant challenges facing developers at every level, particularly those in the auto industry who need to understand driver behavior. Recently, Star’s Head of Solution Architecture Oleg Lebedyn and Head of Design Manuel Gattinger collaborated with CloudMade’s CTO, James Brown and Head of Data Science, Dr. Pavel Negadailov to discuss how to rise to the challenge viewing a personalized driving coach project as an example.

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Beginning with the endgame in mind

At the heart of every viable idea must be a goal. For a personalized driving coach, the concept begins by asking, “Is it possible to support drivers to maintain a smooth driving style that combines efficiency with the ultimate goal of safety?” In the ideation process, foundational information is established such as the audience being catered to, the scope of the project, where the collected data can be found, and the pain points that will be addressed.

Is an aware driver seeking to improve fuel efficiency? Can you coach a new driver to navigate the streets safer? Is it possible to provide relevant, valuable information to experienced drivers? It all begins by setting accurate expectations at the start.

Tackle the design challenges

During creation, the product goes through several checkpoints before being built out. The main challenge is to find a solution that affects change in the user’s habits. As a personalized driving coach is meant to be a consistent engagement point intended to improve their driving over time, the user must find the content ‘evergreen’. Yet as a solution that’s presented in-vehicle to a driver or on their device, it’s imperative that it does not become a distraction, living in the background.

Since the driving coach is likely to find a home with a vast range of demographics, the results have to be intuitive and easily digested by the driver. Determining how to detect problematic or unsafe driving habits and encouraging how to correct them is clearly an objective across the complete lifecycle.

Tackle the design-challenges

Engineer with intention

Design is further complicated when a cross-device ecosystem is introduced, massive amounts of data are introduced, and the information must be transmitted outside the vehicle, requiring data security. A robust offline mode is essential along with a continuous learning model, both of which center around machine learning.

Cornerstone content includes a data collection platform, intelligent ML developments, broad-scope integration, a gamification aspect, and validation.

Phases of development

The research phase

Research is foundational to accomplishing the defined goals, involving extensive competitor and user research. User personas help to flesh out the user journey and fill in the blanks, from initial introduction to the personalized driving coach and throughout their lifecycle with the vehicle.

The design phase

Taking into consideration the brand’s ethos and appearance, the UI environment is crafted to be cohesive across the user’s devices, whether the driver information center in-vehicle, their smartphone, or otherwise. Design starts with use cases, progresses to wireframes, then visual design prior to being engineered for vehicle implementation. The key to every stage of the design process is continuous, robust testing that verifies every facet that’s implemented.

The machine learning architecture phase

For this type of system, the technical framework is hybridized to synchronize in-vehicle tech with cloud-based learning. This mix is ideal with all the machine learning performed in the cloud to prevent the need for using vast amounts of computational power - resources the vehicle must share with other applications. Cloud-based data also enables the personalized driving coach to aggregate behavioral information from other drivers for cohort learning.

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The validation phase

To the client, three aspects that are most important for this type of solution:

  • Does it work accurately? Is user behavior predicted correctly and are the predicted destinations accurate?
  • Are the users achieving their objectives? Is changing driving behavior identifiable with the product? Is the driver enjoying and engaging with the personalized driving coach?
  • Are there fewer dangerous events by the driver? The ultimate goal is to achieve safer drivers with fewer incidents on the roads.

These three criteria are used to validate the solution and refine it at the end-to-end testing stage as well as post-production launch.

Summary

Whether it’s reducing the frequency of road collisions, influencing driver behavior, or developing more convenient features and solutions, it requires a team of specialists to carry an idea to implementation. Star’s services such as intentional consultation, strategy, development, as well as deliberate partnerships will help you achieve your objectives in the automotive space. 

What does it take to bring your concept to life? It requires the ability to identify an audience, understand the challenges, and define a development process through four critical stages: research, design, architecture, and validation.

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Oleg Lebedyn
Head of Solutions Architecture at Star

Oleg has been with Star and in the software consultancy business for more than 12 years and holds a degree in applied cryptology. Having worked with OEMs, Tier 1s and automotive startups for the past five years, Oleg is currently leading Star's solution architecture team. He helps clients to shape their vision and deliver the software that fits their business needs.

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Manuel Gattinger
Head of Design, Germany at Star

Manuel strives to make complex things more democratic and to design and build solutions that have a positive impact. He has more than 15+ years of experience in the field of user-centered innovation and with projects where strategy, design and technology intersect. Manuel is part of the iF Design Jury and an active lecturer for UX-Design at the Macromedia University of Design.

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James Brown
CTO at CloudMade

Jim has worked in the field of telecommunications, geo-spatial data, database/ERP and automotive for over 35 years. After beginning his career at GM / EDS in the Truck and Bus group, he moved to Kmart to deploy the first distributed Unix systems into over 2,200 store locations; and was responsible for international systems, R&D, and strategic planning. He subsequently ran the technical architecture group at Oracle UK and later was part of the founding team at Symbian. Jim is responsible for the architecture of CloudMade’s products for distributed machine learning and the application of the same at different OEMs.

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Dr. Pavel Negadailov
Head of Data Science at CloudMade

Pavel has more than 15 years of experience as a Data Scientist, C++ and Java Software engineer. He possesses strong analysis, problem solving and mathematical skills and an understanding of the automotive market & its particular requirements. Pavel is responsible for designing and developing Machine Learning solutions at CloudMade. Pavel holds two PhD’s in Mathematics from universities in Ukraine and the Netherlands.

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