Organizers
Mungyeong Choe
Moon is a first year Ph.D. student majoring in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering with a concentration in human factors at Virginia Tech.
She is studying in the Mind Music Machine Lab (tri-M lab). Her research focuses on the effects of empathic in-vehicle agents in driving contexts.
Esther Bosch
Esther Bosch is a Human Factors researcher at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) with a background in Neuroscience.
She is especially interested in modeling traveler experience by using multimodal data including context data and has worked in several projects regarding this topic.
Jiayuan Dong
Jia participated as a Ph.D. student majoring in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a concentration in human factors at Virginia Tech.
Her research projects focus on emotions and trust in human-robot interaction (HRI) and human-computer interaction (HCI). She has various experiences with different types of social robots, especially using them as intelligent agents in automated driving and other dynamic environments.
Ignacio Alvarez
Ignacio Alvarez is a Principal Engineer at Intel Labs. He obtained his PhD in Computer Science at University of the Basque Country, Spain, and Clemson University, USA. in the application of Human Computer Interaction to Automotive Engineering.
His research interest is on automated driving systems, intelligent transportation and the practical application of cognitive sciences to affective computing and ADAS. He has been serving in several roles as a steering committee member of the AutoUI community.
Michael Oehl
Michael Oehl is head of the research group Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Transportation Systems in Braunschweig and Berlin, Germany. The research group is devoted to user-centered human-machine interaction and interface design in future transportation systems.
Additionally, Michael is adjunct senior lecturer for Traffic Psychology at the German Police University. Michael has a strong background in Human Factors as well as Engineering and Traffic Psychology.
Christophe Jallais
Christophe Jallais is a Research Director at Universite Gustave Eiffel (former IFSTTAR) in Lyon (France) at LESCOT (Laboratory of Ergonomics and Cognitive Sciences for Transport).
His research interests concern principally with the role of degraded attentional states (emotions, cognitive distraction) on decision-making processes, driving performance, risk-taking and the use of automation. With a neuro-ergonomics approach, he also develops research on degraded attentional state identification and monitoring.
Areen Alsaid
Areen Alsaid is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department, and the Director of the Safe, Empathetic & Trustworthy technology (SET) Lab at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Her research program focuses on drivers’ cognitive and affective state estimation through physical manifestations and contextual information, to smooth the interaction between humans and automation.
Chihab Nadri
Chihab is a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial and Systems Engineering with a specialization in human factors and auditory display design at Virginia Tech.
His research interests focus on the design of novel interfaces and displays using user-centered design, empathic interfaces, and sonification in surface transportation, automated systems, and human-machine interaction settings.
Myounghoon "Philart" Jeon
Philart is an Associate Professor in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer Science (by courtesy) at Virginia Tech. His Mind Music Machine Lab focuses on emotion and sound research in the context of automotive user experiences, assistive robotics, and arts in extended reality.
He edited books, “Emotions and Affect in Human Factors and Human-Computer Interaction” and “User experience design in the era of automated driving”. He hosted AutoUI 2022 as a General co-Chair and has been serving as a steering committee member of the AutoUI community.