CFP: 1st Workshop on Situational Awareness in Semi-Automated Vehicles
The First Workshop on Situational Awareness in Semi-Automated Vehicles, co-organised by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, will be held as part of Automotive UI 2016 in Ann Arbor Michigan (USA).
Automotive'UI 2016, Ann Arbor, Michigan
The rise of (semi)-automated vehicles coupled with their relative success brings with it a set of opportunities and challenges. One of these is that the driver will no longer be as engaged in the driving task and may undertake other activities, from conversing with other occupants, through to playing games or sleeping. As a result, drivers are effectively out-of-the-loop. Nevertheless, as these vehicles will be available in the foreseeable future and encounter events they are not able to handle safely, drivers will be required to resume control. This requires that the drivers possess enough situational awareness to respond effectively to a takeover need. This workshop will address this challenge by inviting experts and practitioners from the automotive and related domains to explore concepts and solutions to increase, maintain and transfer situational awareness in semi-automated vehicles.
>> More information can be found at www.auto-ui.org/16/
Workshop Themes
Topics discussed at this workshop include – but are not limited to – the following aspects and challenges regarding situational awareness in automated vehicles:
• Multimodal cues for supporting situational awareness and handovers/takeovers.
• Shared situational awareness between the car and its occupants; what information has to be shared and how to share it.
• Engagement in non-driving tasks; how to measure levels of immersion, flow, engagement and involvement in secondary tasks.
• The tradeoff between driving and non-driving tasks.
• Optional vs compulsory hand-overs.
• The bi-directionality of handovers and takeovers; the relationship between car and driver during the handover situation and information exchanged.
• Resumption of control of non-driving tasks.
• Tactical, operational and strategic knowledge
• Mental models of handover situations and the transfer of situational awareness.
• The impact of different automation levels on situational awareness, handovers and takeovers
• Metrics for assessing situational awareness.
• Deskilling; the impact of a possible drop in driving skills relating to the less frequent experience of the driving task.
Participation and Submission Instructions
We invite submissions of short one slide introduction of each participant. This slide should contain a minimum of three short statements regarding (a) your professional background, (b) your interest in autonomous driving and/or situational awareness, (c) your interest in this workshop in particular or desired outcomes thereof. The organisers do not request submission of papers, as the focus of the workshop is on collaborative discussions and prototyping. Submissions should be written in English and submitted in PPT or PDF format. The deadline for submitting a slide is 25th August 2016.
>> Submissions should be made by mail to Roderick Mc Call.
Organisers
- Rod McCall, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg.
- Ioannis Politis, University of Cambridge, UK.
- Ignacio Alvarez, Intel Labs, USA.
- Martin Baumann, Ulm University, Germany.
- Shadan Sadeghian, OFFIS -- Institute for Information Technology in Oldenburg, Germany.
- Jacques Terken, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherlands.
- Alexander Mirnig, University of Salzburg, Austria.
- Alexander Meschtscherjakov, University of Salzburg, Austria.
- Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg and AIT, Austria.
- Lewis Chuang, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (Tuebingen), Germany.
Acknowledgement
This workshop concept was devised during the recent seminar on Automotive User Interfaces in the Age of Automation held at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. Seminar number 16262. We gratefully acknowledge the organisers of the seminar, Schloss Daghstul and the other members of the seminar for their contributions.
