Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Applications – AUIIA 08
Organizers
Albrecht Schmidt, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Susanne Boll, Universität
Oldenburg
Wolfgang Spießl, BMW Group Forschung und Technik,
München
Matthias Kranz, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen
Theme and aim of the workshop
Components that include processing, communication, sensing and media are common in many areas in the automotive domain. With these novel technologies creating attractive in-car user interfaces has become a great challenge. Additionally, users expect interfaces that are intuitive and straightforward to use, without the need to read a manual. The overall experience in driving a car is more and more influenced by the man-machine interface, and hence creating a compelling user interface is of great importance for a successful product. Traditional means for user interface development as known from desktop computing are often not suitable, as many other conditions have an influence on the design space for automotive user interfaces. In comparison to many other domains, trial and error while the product is already in the market is not acceptable as the cost of failure may be fatal. User interface design in the automotive domain is relevant across many areas ranging from primary driving control, to assisted functions, to navigation and entertainment.
The workshop will provide a venue to present novel research in this field and to discuss ideas and problems on the topic. The overall aim of the workshop is to foster a community that has interest and expertise in the domain of automotive user interfaces.
Topics
There are many challenges and topics that we like to address in the workshop. Original contributions from the following areas and beyond are welcome:
- new concepts for driving interfaces
- multi-modal car user interface
- methods and tools for automotive user interface research
- approaches for the evaluation of novel car user interfaces
- user interface issues for assistive functionality
- novel multimedia interfaces and in-car entertainment
- text input and output while driving
- speech interfaces for in-car use
- user interfaces for information access while driving
- user interfaces for navigation systems
- user interface frameworks and toolkits
- development tools and methods for car user interfaces
- biometrics as a user interface component
- detection and estimation of user intentions
- new display, visualization and interaction techniques for car UIs
- novel interactive car applications
- using sensors and context for interactive experiences in the car
Participants
The workshop seeks to bring together researchers, developers, practitioners and students from academia and industry who are concerned with envisioning, creating and implementing automotive user interfaces. The number of participants will be limited to 20 people to enable intensive discussions.
Submission
Participants will be selected based on their submissions by a program committee; papers will undergo a peer-review. Two types of submissions are encouraged:
- Research papers describing original research work on automotive user interfaces
- System demonstrators of novel applications
- Experience reports and case studies with in-car user interfaces
The length of the submissions can be 3 or 6 pages for both categories. We strongly encourage student papers who may also report work in progress.
Contributions can be written in English or German language. Please mind the format guidelines
Please submit your position paper until June 27,
2008 to automotiveui2008@googlemail.com,
you will be informed on acceptance on July 04, 2008.
Submission is closed.
Agenda & Schedule
The workshop is proposed as a full day workshop but takes place on two days, Monday and Tuesday afternoon.
| Monday, September 8th 2008: | |
| 14:00 - 14:10 | Welcome and introduction to the workshop |
| 14:10 - 15:30 | Session Topic: Perception |
| Presentations (each 15 minutes talk, 5 minutes discussion) | Applying Tactile Displays to Automotive User Interfaces (Martin Pielot, Dirk Ahlers, Wilko Heuten, Amna Asif, Susanne Boll) |
| Studying UX Aspects of In-Car Vibrotactile Interaction (Arjan Geven, Reinhard Sefelin, Manfred Tscheligi, Clemens Kaufmann, Ralf Risser) |
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| Age- and Gender-Related Studies on Senses of Perception for Human-Vehicle-Interaction (Andreas Riener) |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 | Session Topic: HMI and context-awareness |
| Presentations (each 15 minutes talk, 5 minutes discussion) | Towards A Generic Adaptability Framework for Automotive HMI (Rüdiger Heimgärtner) |
| Abstrakte Beschreibung automobiler HMI-Systeme (Björn Reich, Michael Weber, André Berton, Christoph Schürer) |
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| Kontextsensitive Fahrzeugsysteme: Potential und Herausforderungen (Wolfgang Spießl, Stefan Hoch) |
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| Cooperatively Communicating Assistance Systems (Matthias Kranz, Matthias Röckl, Andreas Franz, Thomas Strang) |
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| 19:30 - 24:00 | Social event in the Media Docks |
| Tuesday, September 9th 2008: | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session Topic: Evaluation and Driver Distraction |
| Presentations (each 15 minutes talk, 5 minutes discussion) | CarUSE – Evaluation von Fahrer-Informationssystemen (Thomas Vöhringer-Kuhnt) |
| CARS – Configurable Automotive Research Simulator (Dagmar Kern, Marco Müller, Stefan Schneegaß, Lukasz Wolejko-Wolejszo, Albrecht Schmidt) |
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| Identification of Driver Distraction in Automotive Environments (Oliver Paczkowski, Jörg Müller) |
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| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee/Tea break |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | discussion on central research questions, challenges, research methods |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Wrap-up, discussion on future plans for the workshop |
Please send any questions to automotiveui2008@googlemail.com
See http://vielmehr.org/muc/?Programm for the whole schedule.
Program Committee
Klaus Bengler, BMW Group Forschung und Technik
Wolfgang Beinhauer,
Fraunhofer IAO
Verena Broy, BMW Group Forschung und Technik
Alois Ferscha,
Universität Linz
Jens Fliegner, Volkswagen AG
Gerhard Hanrieder,
Harman/Becker Automotive Systems
Rüdiger Heimgärtner, Intercultural User
Interface Consulting
Paul Holleis, Universität Duisburg-Essen
Heinrich
Hußmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Dagmar Kern, Universität
Duisburg-Essen
Antonio Krüger, University of Münster
Sandro Leuchter,
Fraunhofer IITB, Karlsruhe
Thomas Mandl, Universität Hildesheim
Klaus
Schaaf, AutoUni, Volkswagen AG
Leon Urbas, Technische Universität Dresden
Michael Weber, Universität Ulm