Introductions

The workshop will begin with a warm welcome and a brief introduction from each organizer. We will present a summary of previous workshop iterations to familiarize the audience with the workshop concept. Shortly after, we will also discuss the goal of the proposed workshop.

Paper Presentations

An emotion charade game will be used for icebreaking. Each participant will select a random emotion from the emotion pool provided by the organizers. With the emotions, participants will be asked to pair with another person and display the emotions in different formats: facial expressions, non-verbal sounds, and gestures. The goal of the game is to meet people and get the most participants to guess the emotion correctly.

Tutorial

Experts in eHMI will be invited to provide one to two slides discussing their related work in the field. After the presentation, we will provide the participants with a tutorial for an affective design tool, Task Emotion Analysis (TEA), to identify emotions and triggers during on-road tasks and design empathic interfaces that can mitigate emotional impacts. Following this tutorial, we will show participants how to incorporate the TEA results into a generative AI agent for prototyping.

Discussion

Participants will be grouped based on the topics provided by the brainstorming wall. Then, participants will discuss and develop an emotion and road event that requires empathic agents or affective eHMI for automated vehicles. 

Rapid Prototyping

Participants will brainstorm design ideas after deciding on the scenario. Potential topics include in-vehicle agent design, eHMI design, and ecological system designs.

Presentations and Closing Remarks

Each group will present its design and prototypes. We will discuss their ideas and share insights with each other based on the topic.