CUI @ Auto-UI: Exploring the Fortunate and Unfortunate Futures of Conversational Automotive User Interfaces

TL;DR

This paper discusses a workshop aimed at fostering collaboration between Auto-UI and CUI communities to explore optimistic and pessimistic futures of automotive conversational interfaces, encouraging creative and strategic thinking.

Contribution

It introduces a workshop format that promotes interdisciplinary discussion and planning for future research in automotive conversational user interfaces.

Findings

Enhanced collaboration between Auto-UI and CUI researchers.

Identification of opportunities and barriers in future automotive interfaces.

Development of shared research agendas.

Abstract

This work aims to connect the Automotive User Interfaces (Auto-UI) and Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) communities through discussion of their shared view of the future of automotive conversational user interfaces. The workshop aims to encourage creative consideration of optimistic and pessimistic futures, encouraging attendees to explore the opportunities and barriers that lie ahead through a game. Considerations of the future will be mapped out in greater detail through the drafting of research agendas, by which attendees will get to know each other's expertise and networks of resources. The two day workshop, consisting of two 90-minute sessions, will facilitate greater communication and collaboration between these communities, connecting researchers to work together to influence the futures they imagine in the workshop.