Workshop on Mobile Interaction With and In Autonomous Vehicles

Google’s driverless car and the announcement of Uber using self-driving cars to transport people  along with other approaches and vendors will have a significant impact on people’s mobility behavior, on how people interact with autonomous vehicles, and what users will do while riding in such autonomous cars. This will lead to a number of challenges and questions, which need to be addressed and explored. This workshop will focus on the following goals:

• Discuss best practices and patterns for mobile design and how they can be applied to the design of autonomous vehicles

• Envisioning new interaction opportunities for the driver to communicate with the automated vehicle (and vice versa)

• Explore new designs for hand-over, interruptions and (shared) control situations in mobile HCI and autonomous driving and discuss their practicability in the respective domains

• Explore engineering issues related to safety, reliability and security properties, as well as certification aspects

• Exploration of UX factors such as fun, acceptance and (over)trust

• The evolution from car a tool to car as a companion and what can be learnt from HRI

• Examination of situational awareness issues from the perspective of the car and the human

• Discuss ethics-related questions