Alexander Meschtscherjakov

Passenger comfort is emerging as a key challenge for the successful deployment and public acceptance of highly automated vehicles. Existing research has examined individual comfort determinants, including vehicle dynamics, driving style, trust, perceived safety, and human-machine interaction (HMI), although these factors have been largely investigated in isolation. Consequently, a comprehensive understanding of how they jointly influence passenger comfort remains limited. This workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from the AutomotiveUI community to develop a holistic perspective on comfort in automated driving. Through interactive brainstorming, small-group discussions, and collaborative framework building, participants will identify key comfort determinants, explore the relationships between vehicle behavior, user characteristics, contextual factors, and HMI designs, and discuss methodological challenges in measuring and improving passenger comfort. The workshop will culminate in a community-driven research agenda and an initial conceptual framework to guide future interdisciplinary research on adaptive, human-centered automated mobility systems.

Recent advancements in augmented reality (AR) technologies have brought us closer to the vision of everyday ubiquitous computing and pervasive AR use. State-of-the-art AR glasses now enable mobile, on-the-move experiences that extend beyond laboratory settings. This promise has already been explored across diverse mobile contexts, including transportation, entertainment, shopping, and tourism. This workshop focuses on AR on-the-move, examining how AR can support interaction in dynamic settings where environmental and social contexts shift rapidly and users are in locomotion. We will discuss both the unique challenges and the rich opportunities such scenarios present for meaningful augmentation and new forms of interaction. By uniting established scholars and emerging researchers from across HCI, this workshop seeks to map out critical directions for future inquiry. Through hands-on activities and reflection, participants will collectively identify key opportunities, challenges, and next steps for advancing research on AR on-the-move.

Sports Human-Computer Interaction (SportsHCI) is a growing field that is dedicated to investigating the coming together of human-computer interaction and sports. Through this meet-up, we aim to bring together the SportsHCI community and engage adjacent communities including User-centered AI, MobileHCI, CHIPlay, ISWC-Ubicomp, and Augmented Humans. Sports inherently involves mobile, playful, and ubiquitous technologies as well as human augmentation—making SportsHCI directly relevant to these subcommunities. By framing discussions around AI in the athlete experience and the role of multifaceted sports data, we create natural entry points for researchers across these domains. We invite participants to discuss their thoughts on these topics to foster collaboration among research groups.