Modeling and Measuring Interactions

The goal of the workshop is to bring together both young and experienced researchers in the field of automotive UI research and discuss settings, experiences, best practices, etc. for conducting lab or field experiments. This includes discussions (of more experienced participants) about how to improve user studies (setting), what types of sensors and recording platforms are suitable for which studies, feasibility of results (e.g., transfer of lab results to real scenarios), which should help "new" researchers (first year PhD or before) that are just starting with auto UI research to learn from the experience and mistakes of others.

Topics of Interest

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

1) Measuring and Modeling of the Driver

  • Sensors in driving simulators vs. sensors in commercial vehicles (used in on-road studies)
  • Cameras and multi-camera arrays
  • Depth/Infrared/Acoustic sensors
  • "Brought-in sensors" such as smartphones
  • Contextual databases/sensors (contact lists, addresses, etc.)
  • Neuroergonomic sensors (e.g., EEG, fNIRS, ECG, EMG, fEMG, SCR, etc.)   
  • Driver emotion models
  • Driver intent models
  • Shared situational awareness
  • "The driver as sensor"

2) Measuring and Modeling of Driving

  • Best-known methods for modeling driving behaviors in on-road and simulator studies
  • Feasibility of the lane change task
  • Detection response and peripheral detection task (PDT) [1]
  • Best-known methods in qualitative & quantitative data gathering
  • Examples of good/bad experimental settings
  • Settings to use for tests in mixed automated settings
  • How to test interaction with autonomous cars in the exterior (pedestrians vs. autonomous vehicles)
  • Simulator studies settings (platform, connected sensors/actuators, data extraction and processing, synchronization issues)
  • Study design (lab, on-road; comparison lab vs. field, Wizard of Oz, Safety of test subjects, etc.)

3) Measuring and Modeling for Explicit Interactions

  • Sensors for Natural User Interaction (NUI )(Leap motion, Kinect, Myo, Emotiv, Neurosky, etc.)
  • Testing from OEMs and HW providers point-of-view
  • Main issues and constraints of the in-vehicle environment
  • How to recognize deliberate commands from random in-car activities
  • Discussion on standards (for gestures, tactile feedback, etc.)

Publication Plans

The workshop website will feature all accepted papers together with the outcomes of the workshop (posters of group sessions, brief summary of the discussions, etc.). In addition, a summary article will be produced, e.g., for ACM Computing Surveys (http://surveys.acm.org). We will further consider proposing a special issue together with the organizers of the "Workshop on Adaptive Ambient In-Vehicle Displays and Interactions", covering the whole interaction loop (e.g., sensing/modeling and feedback/adaptive interfaces). Potential outlets are the "Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal" (co-organizers of this workshop successfully managed to publish a special issue [2] of the 2012 AutoUI workshop on "The Social Car" [3]) or the "International Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing".