Creating Meaningful Driving Experiences

In Collaboration with Bosch

 

Background

ChangeLabs worked with Bosch's Car Experiences team -- a group in charge of shaping the future of in-car experiences -- to generate a genuinely innovative, game-changing experiential system. Bosch is a global engineering company, and their automotive department supplies sub-systems to all the major players in the automotive industry.

 

The size of the global fleet of cars is in excess of 750 million. People's experience in their cars has changed in many ways, and yet at a fundamental level, the time spent in a car adds little to one’s life, one's sense of contentedness, and the environment. Americans spend more than 15 hours driving per week, and consume 19% of their meals in their car. 

 

INTENT

In-car experiences are changing fast. There is an unprecedented layer of information and connectivity that has become available with technologies such as GPS, connectivity to the internet, Bluetooth connection to cell phones, sophisticated dashboards, cloud computing, and sensors. 

 

The intent of this project was to use this new information layer to redefine the in-car experience. Given information and multi-media technology, it is difficult to avoid creating flashy, sybaritic or “technology-push” experiences, rather than helping to create meaningful experiences. Behavioral studies show that experiential cues, feedback systems, and framing of information have deep influences on people's patterns of behavior and their level of contentedness.

 

APPROACH

A team was asked to design an in-car experience for drivers and passengers, to change their behavior, increase wellness in their own lives, and reduce their footprint. The team worked on a concept, strategy and plan to enable genuine value-creation on multiple fronts, while creating a paradigm that served as a blue-ocean business strategy for Bosch in economy, mid-size, and premium vehicle segments.