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.