Ignacio Alvarez

Ignacio Alvarez

Professor and Principal Engineer in Intelligent Systems

Empathic vehicle design: Use cases and design directions from two workshops

Published in ‘Proceedings of ACM’s Computer Human Interaction Conference (CHI)’, ACM 2022

Abstract

Empathic vehicles are expected to improve user experience in automated vehicles and to help increase user acceptance of technology. However, little is known about potential real-world implementations and designs using empathic interfaces in vehicles with higher levels of automation. Given advances in affect detection and emotion mitigation, we conducted two workshops (N1 =24, N2 = 22, Ntotal = 46) on the design of empathic vehicles and their potential utility in a variety of applications. This paper recapitulates key opportunities in the design and application of empathetic interfaces in automated vehicles which emerged from the two workshops hosted at the ACM AutoUI conferences.

Key Contributions

  • Emphathetic HMI design in Automotive
  • Generative AI prototyping
  • Workshop organization and community building

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Citation

@inproceedings{nadri2022empathic, title={Empathic vehicle design: Use cases and design directions from two workshops}, author={Nadri, Chihab and Alvarez, Ignacio and Bosch, Esther and Oehl, Michael and Braun, Michael and Healey, Jennifer and Jallais, Christophe and Ju, Wendy and Li, Jingyi and Jeon, Myounghoon}, booktitle={CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts}, pages={1--7}, year={2022} }
Nadri, Chihab and Alvarez, Ignacio and Bosch, Esther and Oehl, Michael and Braun, Michael and Healey, Jennifer and Jallais, Christophe and Ju, Wendy and Li, Jingyi and Jeon, Myounghoon (2022). Empathic vehicle design: Use cases and design directions from two workshops. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts.