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2.1 Presentations
We will kick off the workshop by providing time for quick
introductions of participants as well as presentations of their
current work, areas of interest related to the topic, as well as their
submitted position paper.
2.2 Discussions
We will quickly transition to a group discussion about the views
on Routine Drives, highlighting the areas of importance related to
the challenges and opportunity spaces.
2.3 Hands-on activity
Breaking the group into smaller teams, participants will be
challenged to deliberate in their groups and construct a solution
that delivers, in a tangible way, what their views are related to an
ideal experience in the frame of Routine Drives. Examples of the
desired outcomes include rapid prototypes built with tools such
as: paper, Arduino, Processing, video, etc. Workshop organizers
will provide basic supplies and tools, and participants will be
encouraged to bring their own. Teams will be constructed
carefully selecting attendees with different backgrounds to create
a truly multidisciplinary solution.
Finally, all the teams will have time to present their artifact to the
group to generate discussion and define next steps.
3. WORKSHOP AUDIENCE
We would like to invite practitioners and academics from a range
of disciplines, including design, marketing, anthropology and
ethnography, sociology, engineering, and computer science. We
would aim for a workshop of approximately 16 -20 individuals
with a good representation of different disciplines. Interested
workshop participants will be requested to submit a 1-3 page
position paper on one of the design questions listed in the
introduction. Answers can be theoretical or empirical (prototypes,
studies, applications, or interaction concepts) and should be
innovative in nature. The paper should also contain a short bio of
the author highlighting the relevant areas of interest, current work
or research. The selection of workshop participants will be done
by a review process by experts from the broader field of
automotive: anthropologists, computer scientists, interaction
designers and human factors engineers acting as reviewers.
Reviews will be done anonymously using an evaluation form. The
submission process, as well as a website listing pertinent dates
and distributing information, will be set-up by the workshop
organizers. This website will be used for publicizing the
workshop amongst peers in the academia and industry. Social
networks will also be utilized for this purpose.
4. EXPECTED OUTCOMES
By the end of the workshop, attendees will come away with a
deeper understanding of the design space of routine driving and
all the opportunities this represents, by being exposed to an initial
set of solutions to enhance the experience. We expect that these
efforts will help identify the areas that would benefit from
furtherresearch, that they will be able to carry the results of the
discussions and use them in their future work. We also aim to
contribute with articles in publications of interest, documenting
the workshop findings and potentially including a gallery of all
the prototypes created by the group.
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Adjunct Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and
Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '12), October 17–19, 2012, Portsmouth, NH, USA
5. ORGANIZERS BIOGRAPHIES
5.1 Carlos Montesinos
Technology Researcher in the Interaction and Experience
Research (IXR) Group, Intel Labs. His main role is to develop
technologies to bridge the interaction gap between people and
computing systems, and his research focus is in Human Computer
Interaction (HCI) for Automotive. Carlos received his B.S. in
Electrical Engineering from Universidad San Francisco de Quito,
Ecuador, and he earned his M.S. in Electrical and Computer
Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Prior to joining Intel Labs he worked as a Test R&D Engineer
with Intel Manufacturing, developing and validating Robotic
prototypes for Intel’s automated factories. Carlos has contributed
with multiple projects in Robotics and Controls in Germany,
Japan, and Ecuador.
5.2 Dalila Szostak
Human Factors Engineer in the Interaction and Experience
Research (IXR) Group, Intel Labs. Her work is focused in
experience design and evaluation to guide a people focused vision
for new Intel products in particular in the area of automotive.
Dalila holds a Professional Doctorate in Engineering in the topic
of User System Interaction from the Technical University of
Eindhoven, The Netherlands and a MS in Human Factors and
Systems from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. Prior to
joining Intel Labs, Dalila worked with Boeing Commercial
Aviation division in the role of Human Factors Engineer and with
TomTom in the role of Interaction Designer (User Experience
team).
5.3 Alex Zafiroglu
Senior researcher with the Interaction and Experience Research
(IXR) Group, Intel Labs, where she researches the complex
relationships among people, spaces, and objects in car settings,
and the kinds of experiences of technology that make sense in
such space. She received her Ph.D. degree in Cultural
Anthropology from Brown University in 2004.
6. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
In addition to the authors, Victoria Fang, Jennifer Healey, Tim
Plowman, David Graumann, and Brent Selmins are part of the
Intelligent Systems research group in the Interaction and
Experience Research Lab.
7. REFERENCES
[1] Zafiroglu, A. Plowman, T. Healey, J., Graumann, D., Bell,
G. and Corriveau, P. The Ethnographic (U)Turn: Local
Experiences of Automobility. In Adjunct Proceedings of
Automotive UI (Salzburg,Austria. Nov. 30-Dec 2) AutoUI
’11. ACM. pp. 47-48.
[2] Department of Transportation, Research and Innovative
Technology Administration, Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, National Transportation Statistics, table 1-69,
available at
http://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_stati
stics/ as of July 2012.