Andreas Riener
is an associate professor (postdoctoral research fellow) at the University of Linz's Institute of Pervasive Computing. His research interests are the recognition of vital bodily functions using embedded sensors, multimodal sensor-actuator systems, embedded intelligence, context-sensitive data processing, and human factors in driver-vehicle interfaces. Riener received a PhD in CS from the Johannes Kepler University Linz. In 2012, Riener coined the term "Social Car" and was founder of the "social-inspired mobility services" workshop series.
Myounghoon "Philart" Jeon
is an assistant professor in the Departments of Cognitive and Learning Sciences and Computer Science at Michigan Tech. His research areas encompass auditory display, affective computing, assistive technology, aesthetic computing, and automotive interface design. His research has yielded more than 100 publications across various journals and conference proceedings. He received his PhD in Engineering Psychology and Human-Computer Interaction from Georgia Tech. Previously, he worked at LG Electronics as an automotive UI and sound designer.
Bastian Pfleging
is a researcher at the Institute for Visualization and Interactive Systems at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His general research interests are multi-modal and natural user interfaces, especially in the automotive context. He received his Diploma in Computer Science from TU Dortmund, Germany, and was a founder and organizer of the AutoNUI workshop series since it beginning in 2011.
Ignacio Alvarez
is currently research assistant at the Human-Centered Computing Lab in Clemson University focusing on Automotive User Interaction design and its relation to driver distraction. Furthermore he is project manager in BMW for Connected Drive and Innovations for the Asia Pacific Area, where he directs the development of vehicle telematic functions for driver assistance, security, infotainment and location based services. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at University of the Basque Country in Spain in 2012. His dissertation focused on the development of natural vehicle voice interfaces adaptive to the driver distraction level.
Mario Chiesa
is head of the Creativity and Design Innovation Research Unit at Istituto Superiore Mario Boella in Turin, Italy. He holds a Master's degree in Interaction design from Interaction Design Institute Ivrea and a M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Torino. His research interests include NUIs, data visualization and social innovation in several domains, like automotive, cultural heritage, and energy.
Andreas Loecken
is a researcher in the Human Machine Interaction competence center at OFFIS - Institute for information technology in Oldenburg, Germany. He holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Oldenburg, Germany. His research interests include new display modalities and peripheral interaction in the car. In particular, he aims at unobtrusively displaying information to drivers using a light display.
Heiko Mueller
is a researcher in the Interactive Systems group at OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology. He has a background in computer science. His research interest lies in conveying information to users with unobtrusive ambient light displays.