The 2nd Workshop on Localization vs. Internationalization: Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on AutomotiveUI Activities from the View of Diversity and Inclusion

A worldwide pandemic has brought many challenges in numerous areas of everyone's life. The AutomotiveUI 2020 has also been moved to a virtual conference. Although the situation seems to be improving in some parts of the world, the impacts that the pandemic has brought to the research and academia may last long even after the pandemic is over. In the AutomotiveUI community, there is more than one aspect that should be taken into consideration. Ironically, the situation brought about both risks and opportunities including research methods, collaboration, interaction manners, and diversity and inclusion. With this background, the goal of this workshop is to discuss the impact of the COVID19 pandemic on the AutomotiveUI community from the perspective of the diversity and inclusion and to discuss the direction of collaborative activities of our community with researchers from various groups. We will organize three virtual workshop sessions accomodating different time zones.