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Call for Position Papers DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM at AutomotiveUI 2014 Seattle, WA, USA # September 17-19, 2014 (the days right after UBICOMP and ISWC!)

Submissions due: August 8th, 2014 ************************************************************************

After its inauguration in 2013, the AutomotiveUI'14 Doctoral Colloquium aims at bringing together again 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. The DC is scheduled prior to the main conference program on Wedneyday, September 17th, 2014.

The topics of the AutomotiveUI'14 doctoral colloquium are basically the ones of the main conference (full list: http://www.auto-ui.org/14/):

1) Devices & Interfaces for vehicle operation 2) Automated/cooperative driving & Instrumentation 3) Evaluation & Benchmarking (Simulation, FOT, Naturalistic Studies) 4) Driver Performance & Behavior (Emotions, Intention, Distraction,...)

*** ELIGIBILITY *** The AutomotiveUI 2014 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 in the paper. The conversation 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 including figures, references, and a 100 word abstract using the format of the main conference (ACM SIGCHI two column page layout). Templates for LaTeX and MS Word are available for download at the AutoUI website, http://www.auto-ui.org/14/submit.php#doctoralcolloquium. Please stick to the templates to foster consistent submissions. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the members of the doctoral colloquium program committee.

The position statement should: + give a crisp introduction to the field/problem domain, + present key related work (current status of the problem domain and related solutions), + clearly formulate the research question/approach, + 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 one page biographical sketch (CV) should be submitted, including a paragraph stating what you hope to get out of participating in the DC.

Please send applications (position statement, biographical sketch) as soon as possible but no later than August 8th, 2014 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).