Program

This workshop is intended for Human-Machine (HMI) andHuman-Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers as well as for User Experience(UX) and Usability practitioners, designers and developers in the field ofautomotive HMI and interest in designing empathic cars within highly automateddriving. It provides a forum for exchange and discussionon empathic user interfaces, including methodsfor emotion recognition and regulation, empathicautomotive human-machine interaction design, userevaluation and measurements, and subsequent improvement of autonomous driving experience. Troughout the workshop we will follow a Design Thinkingprocedure. After a brief round of introductions, we will introduce participantsin a first step to the research area with definitions of automated driving,emotions and possibilities of in-car emotion recognition to set a base andcommon understanding for the collaboration process in the ongoing workshop [1,2]. In a second step, we will present challenges and boundaries of cutting-edgeresearch methods and results in the field of emotion detection and regulationwithin affective automotive HMI to empathize participants for the next step ofcollaboration. In a third step and as a cardinal point of the workshop, the participating multidisciplinary researchersand practitioners will work in small groups on prospective relevant use cases and critical scenarios foremotions in the age of automated driving. Here, participants will share experiences and ideas as well as theywill discuss design and technology goals for the future. These use cases might be related touser acceptance, user experience, trust, andhedonic aspects (Fig. 2). In a final step, we will discuss the groups’ results forfuture use cases leading to prospective research directions, address their challenges andopportunities, and we will develop ideas on how to tackle them. Ultimately, a road map onhow to continuously improve automotive HMI design in the age of automated driving by emotion recognition and regulation will be designed throughout the workshop.