Call for Position Papers DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM at AutomotiveUI 2013 Eindhoven, The Netherlands, October 27-30, 2013
Submissions due: September 8, 2013 ************************************************************************
The AutomotiveUI 2013 Doctoral Consortium aims at bringing together PhD students working on topics related to the field of automotive user interfaces and interactive vehicular applications, offering them an opportunity to present and discuss their research to an audience of peers and senior faculty. PhD students will receive feedback from their peers about the appropriateness of their idea/topic/research approach, and will enjoy discussing their research with senior members of the community. It is scheduled prior to the main conference program on Sunday, October 27, 2013.
The topics of the AutomotiveUI 2013 doctoral colloquium are the ones of the main conference, including
> new concepts for (multi-modal) in-car user interfaces, > input/output while driving, interaction with navigation systems, > evaluation and benchmarking of in-car user interfaces, > assistive technology in the vehicular context, > methods, tools, standards for automotive user interface research, > detecting and estimating user intentions, cognitive load, distraction > subliminal techniques for workload reduction, > biometrics and physiological sensors as a user interface component, > applications and user interfaces for inter-vehicle communication, > in-car gaming and entertainment, > different user groups and user group characteristics, > in-situ studies of automotive user interface approaches, > driving safety research using real vehicles and simulator studies.
*** ELIGIBILITY *** The AutomotiveUI 2013 doctoral colloquium welcomes contributions from doctoral students currently registered in a PhD program. Ideal candidates should have worked on their dissertation for some months; thus, they should have chosen a research topic and possibly have also selected theoretical and methodological approaches. Selection of participants will be based on the quality of the submission and its relevance to the conference topics of interest.
*** TRAVEL GRANTS *** We intend to provide travel grants to allow more students to take part in the DC; however, at this time we are still negotiating with potential sponsors so that we cannot guarantee at all to offer travel grants. If you think you are eligible for receiving a travel grant and want to apply in case we have grants, please mention this in your application. We will come back to you and request the required information timely.
*** SUBMISSION FORMAT *** Submissions must be single-author, but the name of the supervisor should also be mentioned within the paper. The language of the colloquium is English and all submitted materials must be also in English. Research students wishing to apply for the DC should submit up to 5 pages inclu- ding figure, references, and a 100 word abstract using the format of the main conference (ACM SIGCHI two column page layout; available here: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates).
The position statement should:
> clearly formulate the research question, > present key related work (current status of the problem domain and related solutions), > point out significance and innovation (expected contributions), > describe the research methodology that is applied or planned, > outline your contribution to the problem domain and highlight the uniqueness of your approach, > pose questions and issues (that you'd like to discuss at the DC),
In addition, a biographical sketch (CV) should be submitted, including a paragraph stating what you hope to get out of participating in the DC.
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the members of the doctoral colloquium program committee. Please send applications (position state- ment, biographical sketch) as soon as possible but no later than September 8, 2013 to Andreas Riener, Doctoral Colloquium Chair at doctoral@auto-ui.org. Should you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me any time (at the same address).
*** DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM PANELISTS *** tba.