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Multimedia Tools and Applications - Call for Papers: User Experience (UX) in Human-Autonomous Vehicle Interactions [1246]

Aims and Scope

The prospect of wide-scale development of automated vehicles (AVs) is due to advances in, e.g., robotics, computational power, communications, sensor technologies, and the recognition performance by using artificial intelligence technology. AV brings novel interactions to human users as drivers, passengers, and other human traffic partners undoubtedly. Human-machine interface (HMI) and recommendations of AV kinematics behavior have been widely studied to build appropriate interaction and communication between AV and human users to calibrate trust and improve actual and perceived safety,  efficiency, comfort, prosociality, etc. User experience (UX) correlates trust and has mutual influence with multiple factors, including motion sickness, comfort, and other subjective feelings. However, it is still unclear how to achieve a better-integrated user experience in AV-human interactions. How UX and other human factors influence each other is widely unknown. The aims of this proposed special issue are to initiate research and publish research outcomes from multidisciplinary researchers on impact factors and potential approaches to improve user experience inside and outside automated vehicles.

The scope of the proposed special issue include but not limited to:

  • What factors from cognition perspective influence ‘user experience’ in AV-human interaction? 
  • What is needed to create a positive user experience of automated driving?
  • What is the relationship between UX and other human factors?
  • How is mutual influence among comfort, trust, actual & perceived safety, workload, situation awareness, enjoyment, efficiency, satisfaction  and prosociality?
  • Human-AV interaction theories, concepts, and models
  • UX design and evaluations
  • Evaluation metrics
  • Human factors
  • Cognitive psychology
  • User experience and usability
  • Human-machine interface for AV
  • Kinematics of AV
  • User comfort 
  • Trust in AV

Important Dates:
Open for Submissions: November 1, 2023
Submission Deadline: May 31, 2024

Guest Editors:
Hailong Liu - Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan
Email: liu.hailong@is.naist.jp (this opens in a new tab)

Hao Cheng - University of Twente, Netherlands
Email: h.cheng-2@utwente.nl (this opens in a new tab)
 

Submission Guidelines:
Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications website (this opens in a new tab). Authors should submit through the online submission site at https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx (this opens in a new tab) and select “SI 1246- User Experience (UX) in AV-Human Interaction" when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution, technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference at any time during the review process. Please note that the authors of selected papers presented at IEEE-ITSC 2023 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference. It is worth clarifying that the extended version is expected to contain a substantial scientific contribution, e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons, and that neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated. The extended versions of IEEE-ITSC 2023 papers will undergo the standard, rigorous journal review process and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal. Final decisions on all papers are made by the Editor in Chief.


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