Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications

Abstract

The idea to hold a conference on human-computer interaction issues related to cars emerged some years back. Ubiquitous computing is becoming reality and researchers from computer science and human-computer interaction are moving into new domains. Vehicles and, in particular, cars present an exciting domain that offers many challenging research questions and at the same time new solutions can have a real impact on people's lives. As over the last few years many research projects on vehicle interaction have started and many PhD students work on this topic, we thought it was time to provide a forum for this emerging community. The plans for the conference were well worked out when in late 2008 the economic crisis also impacted the car industry. Despite the risk of running a smaller conference we went ahead and were happy to get many quality submissions and a good number of participants.