Automotive User Interfaces and Interactions in Automated Driving

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue journal is about automotive user interfaces. In the last years, the importance of user interfaces for in-vehicle usage has increased strongly. Different studies show that over 80% of today’s innovations in the automotive industry are based on car electronics and its software. These innovations can be categorized into hidden technologies (e.g., ASP, ESP), comfort functions (e.g., navigation, communication, entertainment) or driver assistance (e.g., distance checking). Especially the last two categories have to be configurable by the driver and therefore require a certain amount of driver interaction. This results in a need for a modern and consistent automotive user interface which on one hand allows the configuration of these systems but which on the other hand conforms to the specialized requirements of the automotive industry. Some of these requirements are: the interaction devices have to be integrated into a limited space; the automotive user interface has to be intuitively usable and adaptable, since drivers generally do not get an extensive explanation and the automotive user interface has to be very easy to use and should distract the driver as little as possible from his main task of driving. The increased complexity of automotive user interfaces, the importance of using consumer electronic devices like e.g. smartphones in the car as well as autonomous driving and e-vehicles has induced a lot of research at universities and industrial companies.

Therefore, we would like to gather your new research in a special issue journal to bring together the leading researchers and practitioners in the field of automotive user interfaces from the traditional field of automotive OEMs and suppliers as well as from modern IT companies.

Prof. Gerrit Meixner
Dr. Ignacio Alvarez
Guest Editors

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