The prospect of wide-scale development of automated vehicles (AVs) is due to advances in, e.g., robotics, computational power, communications, sensor technologies, and the recognition performance by using artificial intelligence technology. AV brings novel interactions to human users as drivers, passengers, and other human traffic partners undoubtedly. Human-machine interface (HMI) and recommendations of AV kinematics behavior have been widely studied to build appropriate interaction and communication between AV and human users to calibrate trust and improve actual and perceived safety,  efficiency, comfort, prosociality, etc. User experience (UX) correlates trust and has mutual influence with multiple factors, including motion sickness, comfort, and other subjective feelings. However, it is still unclear how to achieve a better-integrated user experience in AV-human interactions. How UX and other human factors influence each other is widely unknown. This workshop aims to bring together multidisciplinary researchers from academia and industry to discuss the impact factors and potential approaches to improve user experience inside and outside automated vehicles. It is an open platform that includes interdisciplinary researchers from engineering, cognitive psychology, computer science, informatics, sociology, and design to integrate the ideas and obtain inspirations.

We will use Papercept for workshop paper submissions HERE.

To submit a manuscript, you must have the following items readily available:

• Type of submission: You can select Workshop Paper

 ( Workshop Code AreYouHappy)

• Title of the manuscript

• Short 200 words text-only abstract of the manuscript

• PINs of “ALL” co-authors (you can locate your co-authors’ PIN by following PIN link HERE

• Keywords: you will be prompted for 1-3 conference specific keywords during the submission process

• Manuscript file should be a PDF file (version 1.4 or higher), have all fonts embedded/subsetted, in US Letter page size, searchable, non-password protected document. Final papers sent to be part of the program of the conference MUST be format compliant according to the instructions provided HERE (shortcuts to preparing manuscript: LaTEX support and MS-Word support)

Page Limit

• • For the first submission, a manuscript in US Letter format can be of 6-8 pages (including references).

  • For the final submission, a manuscript should be of 6 pages (including references), with 2 additional pages allowed but at an extra charge.

Publication

• • Workshop papers submitted through Papercept will be peer-reviewed.

  • The accepted workshop papers, if they are presented at this workshop, will be published in IEEE Xplore.