The Workshop on Workshop on Ethical Challenges in Mobility Automation is a one-day on-site workshop at CHI 2023 in Hamburg.
The goals of the workshop are to scope out an agenda to address research and development efforts related to ethics within CHI and related communities, always with a focus on what and how user interfaces can contribute. These are expected to comprise, among others:
- Overall delineation of the actual scope of where ethical aspects intersect with vehicle automation technology
- Visibility of decisions and planned outcomes of vehicle manoeuvres and actions
- Interfaces to visualize moral components of situations and related decisions to act
- Cultural differences between different nationalities (and potentially between subgroups within nationalities)
- Regulatory differences between different countries or jurisdictions %nationalities (and potentially between regions within nationalities)
Workshop candidates are invited to submit a short application (no longer than 2 paragraphs submitted via email to the organisers) in which they provide, in the first paragraph, information on their background and how they relate their professional experience to the workshop topic.
In the second paragraph, provide a short statement on which ethical, regulatory, and/or socio-cultural concerns are most important together with a motivation statement why they want to participate in the workshop including questions the want to discuss during the workshop.
Workshop applications will be published at the workshop website on a voluntary basis.
The workshop is restricted to approx. 20 participants. Applications will be selected by workshop chairs. We aspire to compose a diverse group of participants with different backgrounds and complementary skills.
The author of an accepted application must attend the workshop and register for both the workshop and for at least one day of the conference.
- Format: on-site (if Covid regulation apply, a hybrid setting will be made)
- Workshop participation application deadline: February 23, 2023
- Feedback to applicants: March 12, 2023
- Workshop at CHI2023: April 23, 2023
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Alexander G. Mirnig is a Research Fellow at the Center for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He earned a Masters degree in Analytic Philosophy. His current research focuses on human factors in automated public transportation, control transitions in semi-automated vehicles, and Machine Ethics.
Alexander Meschtscherjakov is an Associate Professor at the HCI division of the University of Salzburg. In his research, he deals with automotive user interface design, user experience with autonomous vehicles, and deskilling of drivers in automated vehicles. He was co-organizing conferences such as AutomotiveUI’11, Persuasive’15, CHIPlay’22 and was organizer of various workshops on automated vehicles (e.g., AutomotiveUI’13-16, CHI’15, CHI’16, CHI’18, CHI’19, CHI’22).
Andrew L. Kun is associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Hampshire. His research focus is human-computer interaction in vehicles, primarily in speech interaction, as well as the use of visual behavior and pupil diameter measures to assess and improve the design of user interfaces. He served as the General Chair of the 2012 AutomotiveUI conference.
Rod McCall is the Leader of the Visualisation and Interaction Research Group at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. His areas of work include automotive user interfaces, serious games and mixed reality. He is the chair of the IFIP Working Group on Social and Ethical Issues in Entertainment Computing, General Co-Chair of IFIP ICEC 2022, and represents Luxembourg in two ISO standards groups. He has organised workshops at CHI, MobileHCI, ICEC, and AutomotiveUI.
Andreas Riener is a professor for Human-Machine Interaction and Virtual Reality at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (THI) with co-affiliation at the CARISSMA Institute of Automated Driving. He is a program manager for User Experience Design and leads the UX/usability research and driving simulator labs.
His research interests include HF/ergonomics, adaptive UIs, driver state assessment, and trust/acceptance/ethics in mobility applications. Andreas has a leading role in the steering committee of ACM AutomotiveUI and is chair of the German ACM SIGCHI chapter. He is founding member of the Joint Ethics Commission of the Universities of Bavaria (GEHBa).
Shadan Sadeghian is a Post-Doc researcher in the department of “Ubiquitous Design/Experience and Interaction” at the University of Siegen, Germany. Her research focuses on designing user experience and interaction with automated systems such as Robots, AI-based systems, and automated vehicles. She investigates approaches that balance pragmatic (performance-oriented) and hedonic (experience-oriented) qualities of interacting with automation) She is a member of the steering committee of AutomotiveUI conference and served as the general co-chair of AutomotiveUI’21.
Henrik Detjen is a PhD student at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. His current research focuses on user experience and safety when interacting with automated systems. In addition, he has worked on the topic of accessible and inclusive future mobility. Recently, he was part of the Competence Center for Automated Mobility North Rhine Westphalia, Germany.
