Human interaction in the future car

This workshop will explore the emerging themes of autonomous driving, social driving, and novel user interaction approaches: Natural user interfaces and peripheral interaction. Our aim is to define the future landscape for research within and across each of these areas. Beyond the scope of "pure" social interaction, we also want to identify how new interaction techniques can be designed, implemented, and evaluated in the vehicle.

We would like to collect different, radical, innovative, versatile and engaging works that challenge or re-imagine human interactions in the near future automobile space. We seek to challenge existing thinking by exploring what is possible both now and by the time the autonomous vehicle is a standard feature of our roads. Participants will be encouraged to suggest alternative concepts with either low fidelity or high fidelity or both. Especially encouraged will be works that are experimental and can provide hands-on demonstration. The workshop will be an opportunity to re-shape the conversation of automobile technology by introducing the community to a new way of thinking

Topics of Interest

Potential topics to be discussed at the workshop include, but are not limited to:

  • What represents a "social car"?
  • Social norm in the automotive domain
  • Plausible types of information in in-car social services
  • Benefit assessment: why should driver-car units disclose their "social status" or "social relationships"? 
  • Parameters to describing social status of a driver or behavior of a vehicle
  • Modeling techniques for handling social interaction behavior, e.g., traffic superorganism, pheromones, stigmergic behavior [5]
  • Co-existence of autonomous and manual-driven cars
  • Symbiotic systems and bio-inspired technology
  • Incentives to support behavior change
  • Gamification of automotive user interfaces
  • Driving as a "collaboration" with either passengers or an agent [3]
  • Privacy, safety, or security issues related to in-vehicle social services (concepts for authentication)
  • Cultural differences in in-vehicle social services [4]
  • Future of natural user interfaces (NUI) and peripheral interaction (PI) in the car
  • Concepts for future multimodal interaction in the car, considering driver, co-driver, backseat area, and the outside
  • Dicussion of new input and output modalities for the car
  • Frameworks and toolkits for designing NUI's and/or PI
  • Models, guidelines, and rules: What are physical, legal, etc. restrictions and challenges for NUI's/PI in the car?
  • New concepts for in-vehicle user interfaces enhancing UX and experience design in the car
  • "Flexible" automotive user interfaces that support the needs for (semi-) automated driving situations

Publication Plans

This workshop should be an opportunity to re-shape the conversation of automobile technology by introducing the community to a new way of thinking: We would like to analyze where and how new interaction techniques can be integrated into the car – for both manual and (semi-) automated driving situations. All accepted contributions will be published electronically at the workshop website (e. g., position papers, Powerpoint PDF slides, and additional material); furthermore, it is planned to compile a survey paper about the "Grand Challenges", issues, approaches, etc. discussed at the workshop to communicate the state-of-the-art in social and natural inspired driving and peripheral interaction to the community (e g., ACM Computing Surveys).