The embodied vehicle

Driver assistance system development commonly targets a substitution of driver responsibilities. Such a substitutive approach which ignores the potential of utilizing available human resources has at least two downsides: 1. The human mind has not evolved to stay idle such that people tend to engage in secondary tasks and disengage from the driving task when not needed, causing out-of-the-loop effects. 2. People have strengths in domains that have not yet been mastered artificially and which could substantially improve human-machine systems. This workshop will focus on a different approach that emphasizes on strengthening the link between vehicle and driver. Guided by the term "the embodied vehicle" we will draft and discuss options for achieving a closer human-vehicle integration and try to identify possible implications of the developed approaches. The workshop aims to connect practitioners, researchers, and professionals who wish to further explore this perspective on technology and interface development.