Call for participation

We invite any interested researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts to participate to the CHI 2021 Workshop on “Empathic interactions in automated vehicles #EmpathicCHI”. This one-day online workshop will offer an interdisciplinary forum of discussion for both academics and practitioners interested in setting trust in Human-Vehicle interactions by adding empathy with conversational agents.

Relevent topics of the workshop include:

• Interactions models in autonomous driving

• Affective conversational agents

• Empathic virtual coach

• Affective computing

• Physiological signal processing

• Virtual agents

Researchers from both academia and industry with interest in empathic interactions between drivers and autonomous vehicles research are invited to attend.

Participants will be invited to present themselves and their current projects related to the workshop topics in one slide. Two sessions are planned during the workshop for these flash presentations.

The organizing team will answer all of your questions by email at empathic.chi21@gmail.com