Users and automated driving systems: How will we interact with tomorrow's vehicles? (Dagstuhl Seminar 19132)

Abstract

In today's vehicles, the driving task is increasingly often shared between the driver and the vehicle. It is expected that this will become the norm rather than the exception in the foreseeable future: on some road segments the driving task will be automated, and drivers will become passengers. Thus, we need to design automotive user interfaces with partial automation, and even full automation, in mind. This was the underlying motivation to propose and run this seminar. In the Dagstuhl seminar, six inter-related key research questions were addressed: First, "how to design user interfaces to support the driver's transition back from the role of passenger to the role of driver?". Second, "how user interfaces can support work and play for drivers while the vehicle is controlled by automation?" and third "how we can support communication between all transportation users, from drivers, to pedestrians, to bicyclists?". Furthermore, we explored "how the design of automotive user interfaces affects trust in automation?" and finally discussed "how novel technologies, such as augmented reality displays or advanced spoken dialogue systems can support drivers, and others, in and around partially-, and fully-automated vehicles?". As an umbrella topic, the question "how all of these questions relate to the legal aspects of deploying automotive user interfaces?" received also high attention and lively discussions amongst participants.
Dagstuhl seminar 19132 is a follow-up of the 2016 Dagstuhl seminar 16262 "Automotive User Interfaces in the Age of Automation" and brought (again) together researchers from HCI, psychology, cognitive science, human factors, automotive industry/OEMs and people active in the standardization process to discuss critical problems on the way to automated driving.