Grouped Topics

ALTERNATIVE FUEL

• Alternative Fuels to Gasoline are Developed
• ANTI-CAR
• Dwindling Oil Reserves & Rising Gas Prices
• Future of Cars in Korea - Cars will be powered by fuel cells

VEC PRODUCTS

CURRENT

• Pictures of special interest magazine covers
  • Media - what's in the magazines
  • Kepler's, Menlo Park, CA
  • Tower Records, SF on Market
• On the shelves
  • Media - what's on the shelves
  • Mobile Media Websearch Images
  • Annotated Media/Tech Links

FUTURE

• Future of Cars
• Tech My Ride
• Mobile Future
• Video Games: In-Car Entertainment and Automotive Themes
• Video Gaming Industry Broadens Audience
• Galilieo: The European Alternative to GPS

CAR CUSTOMIZATION

• Online Configurators
  • Customize Your Car Online: Intro and Conclusions
  • Customize Your Car Online (1)
  • Customize Your Car Online (2)
  • Customize Your Car Online (3)

• Car Interiors
  • Dashboard Interface
  • Extreme interior
  • Various Car Interiors (sample imagery)
  • Toyota Prius
• General Trends
  • Increasing Personalization

CAR USAGE

• The Experience of Driving
• Car as office
• Carpooling Increases
• Luxury Car Rentals
• Rise of the Telecommuter

DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS

• The Graying Of America - population becomes older

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Various literature concerning "car culture"
  • Bibliography (and Other Useful Sources)
  • Car Culture - movies, songs covering cars
  • Cars in the Garden of Good and Evil
  • Cartoons in the The New Yorker - fears technology can cause

MISCELLANEOUS

• Beginnings of Car Culture in other countries
• Cars and Cross-Branding

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Research Inputs

David Platt: An attempt to break down the material, suggested by Chris F.'s presentation last Wednesday (see RTNA Meeting Notes, June 8 or Meeting Notes, June 8, 2005). This is in a very preliminary form -- please don't be afraid to put a page in more than one category, either in the "Research Inputs" or any of the other groups above. And let's talk about this as a group ASAP.

• Research Inputs (groups the four categories together)
  • Needs
  • Socio-cultural Change
  • Technology
  • Products/ Services

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Posted at Oct 13/2005 04:45PM:
David Platt: By far the majority of the work on this organizing is that of Chris F. Dickhaus. Thanks, Chris!