Workshop: Designing Biofeedback in Automated Vehicles
Automated User Interfaces Conference - AutoUI2021
AutoUI 2021 is going virtual, for the second year in a row because of the current situation. This year, AutoUI 2021 is supported by L3Pilot Driving Automation, WIVW, Google, ACM, and SIGCHI.
We will be joining AutoUI 2021 this year, and we will be organizing WP6 — Designing Biofeedback of Driver State and Emotion in Automated Vehicles.
Empathic Labs is teaming up with the HumanTech institute, the University of St.Gallen, and Cerence. Multidisciplinary backgrounds joined to create and present this workshop.
Vehicles are still an important mode of transportation. Autonomous vehicles have been on the rise with a global sales estimation of 33 million cars in 2040 according to IHS Markit. Yet the humans are part of the driving task and will always be part of it while going through a critical situation. We believe in the importance of drivers' self-awareness and self-knowledge. For this reason, having an overview and detailed view of a driver's emotions and affective states should be a concerning research and development topic. By displaying the driver's state we hope to influence their driving.
We will tackle this topic by brainstorming with other researchers and practitioners about the biofeedback response modalities and visualizations. Since nowadays cars are understanding the user and being able to communicate with them, an empathic medium consisting of companionship, trust, and confidence should be created. At this point, autonomous driving can reach a higher stake releasing the driver from their main task and allowing other activities.
Multiple research and development topics will be discussed during this workshop. We will be working on reaching precise objectives while sharing and collaborating with all the participants about the context of this workshop. Creativity and brainstorming sessions will be used to model, design, and visualize the concepts and ideas.
The final objective can be summarized as:
Conceptualization, design, and visualization of biofeedback in autonomous car scenarios
If you would like to have access to the materials of this workshop please don’t hesitate to contact us at guys@empathiclabs.ch
