About | AutoUI'23

AutomotiveUI 2023 Workshop:
How to Ensure Diversity and Inclusion at Conferences?
A Workshop for General Chairs, Program Committee Members, Reviewers and Authors

September 18th, 2023, 14:00-18:00

Ingolstadt, Germany

Being the premier forum for automotive user interface research and other vehicular technologies, AutomotiveUI concerns professionals, academics, researchers, and industry representatives from all around the world interested in innovation, research, and application of automotive user interface topics, embodying diversity at its core. This diversity is however not always reflected in the conference’s main program. In order expand the topic foci of the conference in the future, this workshop aims to identify the key factors that influence the main program creation, and create strategies that can help increase its diversity and accessibility, culturally and geographically. We aim to exchange ideas, experiences and start conversations that raise awareness about this topic, in order to inspire longer-term follow-up activities which will eventually result in increased diversity and accessibility not only at AutomotiveUI, but at international conferences in general.

Workshop Goals

The goal of this workshop is to address these issues, in order to ensure AutomotiveUI is valid and relevant beyond the Central Europe and USA umbrellas.
The goal of this workshop is to identify the key factors that influence the main program creation, and create strategies that can help increase its diversity and accessibility, culturally and geographically.
We aim to exchange ideas, experiences and start conversations that raise awareness about this topic, in order to inspire longer-term follow-up activities which will eventually result in increased diversity and accessibility not only at AutomotiveUI, but at international conferences in general.

Background

AutomotiveUI is a premier forum for global automotive user interface research and vehicular technologies, attracting professionals, academics, researchers, and industry representatives worldwide interested in innovation and research in automotive user interface topics.
Despite growing attendee diversity, representative paper numbers from non-European and non-US countries have not increased proportionally.
This discrepancy between the increase in the number of attendees and submissions on one hand, and still extremely low number of accepted papers featured in the main program on the other hand, has stimulated conversations that have motivated the proposal for this workshop.

Participation

We invite participants from different cultures and backgrounds, and from low- or unrepresented countries in the past editions of the main proceedings at AutomotiveUI.
We also invite past and future conference’s organizing committee members, especially general and program chairs, program committee members and reviewers.
We invite authors to share their experiences but also learn more about the process, which can increase their chance for getting their full paper accepted.
To achieve the desired outcomes, we aim to attract at least 35 participants representing, ideally in similar ratios, each of the identified groups of interest.

Expected Outcomes

The workshop aims to generate a list of ideas, approaches, and strategies to enhance diversity and ensure inclusion.
A concise summary of the outcomes will be shared at the "Stepping Stone Panel for Global AutomotiveUI" event during the conference, encouraging discussions among panelists and the audience.
The results will contribute to a white paper designed for presentation to the AutomotiveUI steering committee and other decision-making bodies (e.g., ACM SIGCHI CSCC), impacting future editions of related conferences.
The authors intend to further disseminate the outcomes through publication in an open-access journal, raising awareness beyond the conference.

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