Our goal is to connect CHI communities with the vision to realize a pleasurable, safe and productive living room and office place automated vehicle...

The overarching goal of this Special Interests Group (SIG) is to provide an avenue for researchers exploring human-machine interaction in and around vehicles to exchange ideas regarding Automated Cars as Living Rooms and Offices. By doing so, we hope to establish new cooperations and define a research agenda for this problem space.

Discussion Pillars

In the first meeting of this SIG, an interactive discussion will be held with the following topic pillars:

Non-driving related tasks:
How can we design user interfaces for productivity and well-being in the car, that are safe but also enjoyable? Which tasks are suitable for the restricted environment car?
Technologies:
Which technologies can support work and play in vehicles? For example, what is the role of adaptive systems which adjust themselves to the user and context?
Ergonomics:
What are the requirements of interior and interface design for a mobile office, to ensure comfort and usability while enabling/maintaining usability and safety?
Evaluation methods:
Where are qualitative and where are quantitative methods needed/better suitable? How can we generalize lab results/results from other applications to that of a living room and office car?
Research road map:
What are the next most important topics, specifically in regards to the different levels of automation and their limitations?