Last week, a team representing the TU Delft | Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering attended 16th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutoUI) in California.
The annual event, hosted by Stanford University, brings together over 250 researchers and practitioners interested in both the technical and the human aspects of in-vehicle user interfaces and applications. Providing a forum for the exchange of technical information concerning research (and practice) and educational activities for motor vehicle user interface development.
This year’s conference was an excellent example of the type of tangible outcomes that can come from positive cross-institutional collaborations. In this particular case, we are referring back to the IDE delegation visit to Stanford in May 2023 and the very first) Stanford and TU Delft mobility event that was hosted by our faculty in November 2022.
IDE was well represented at this year’s conference by SPD alumnus Akshay Rege, researcher Dr. Soyeon Kim, professor Nicole Van Nes, and assistant professor Euiyoung Kim – all of whom contributed to the event in different ways, e.g. podium presentation of paper, workshops, and sessions.
Best Paper Award – Honourable Mention
Akshay Rege, an alumnus of the Strategic Product Design MSc programme, delivered an excellent podium presentation on a paper he first-authored, titled, “Talking with Your Car: Design of Human-Centered Conversational AI in Autonomous Vehicles”. The paper, which originated from his MSc thesis project, received an Honourable Mention Award at the conference. During his MSc thesis project, Akshay was co-supervised by IDE Professor Peter Lloyd and Dr. Euiyoung Kim, together with Dr. David Sirkin and Dr. Rebecca Currano from the Center for Design Research at Stanford University.
