INTERACT 2011 - 2011 WORKSHOP: USER EXPERIENCE IN CARS

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Category INTERACT 2011

Deadline: June 10, 2011 | Date: September 05, 2011

Venue/Country: Lisboa, Portugal

Updated: 2011-05-26 22:25:40 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

http://workshops.icts.sbg.ac.at/interact2011/

Interact 2011, Lisbon Portugal, September 5th, 2011

GOALS

This workshop will combine two emerging fields within the CHI community:

User Experience (UX) and HCI in the context Automotive. It will bring together UX experts, who are willing to adapt the understanding of UX (UX models) and discuss UX factors for the specific characteristics of car interiors and automotive user interface (UI) designers and engineers. The overall aim of the workshop is to strengthen and further develop a research agenda for UX in the car both from a scientific, as well as from an industrial perspective.

TOPICS

Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Understanding of UX in the automotive context in a holistic way

* Looking into different sub-domains: the driver, the front seat, the backseat area, interconnection to the outside world

* Researching the relevance of traditional UX factors in the automotive context and identification of new UX factors especially relevant for the car

* Contextual analysis and evaluation methods for UX in the automotive context

* Discussion of car laboratory setups in comparison to in-situ methods for car UX research

* Automotive user interface frameworks and toolkits

* New concepts for in-car user interfaces increasing UX and supporting safety

* Experience Design in the car

* Looking into the future: the ubiquitous car in a mobile society

SUBMISSIONS& DEADLINES

Submissions are expected in the form of position papers (Springer LNCS format, max 4 pages), describing the area of research, specific work (empirical or theoretical) on the workshop topic and the innovative character of the research.

Submissions can be maid by email to interact2011hciunit.org

Deadline for submissions: June 10th, 2011 Notification of acceptance: July 1st, 2011 Workshop at Interact2011: September 5th, 2011

ORGANIZERS

Manfred Tscheligi, University of Salzburg

Albrecht Schmidt, University of Stuttgart

David Wilfinger, University of Salzburg

Alexander Meschtscherjakov, University of Salzburg

Andrew Kun, University of New Hampshire

CONTACT

If you have any further questions do not hesitate to contact:

interact2011hciunit.org

http://workshops.icts.sbg.ac.at/interact2011

http://interact2011.org