I’m thrilled to announce that the theme issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing entitled “Automotive user interfaces and interactive applications in the car” is now available in PUC’s Online First. I had the pleasure of serving as co-editor of this theme issue with Albrecht Schmidt, Anind Dey, and Susanne Boll.

The theme issue includes our editorial [1], and three papers. The first is by Tuomo Kujala, who explores scrolling on touch screens  while driving [2]. The second is by Florian Schaub,
Markus Hipp, Frank Kargl, and Michael Weber, who address the issue of credibility in the context of automotive navigation systems [3]. The third paper is co-authored by me, my former PhD student Alex Shyrokov, and Peter Heeman. We explore multi-threaded spoken dialogues between a driver and a remote conversant [4]. The three papers were selected in a rigorous review process from 17 submissions, by approximately 50 reviewers.

References

[1] Andrew L. Kun, Albrecht Schmidt, Anind Dey and Susanne Boll, “Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Applications in the Car,” PUC Online First

[2] Tuomo Kujala, “Browsing the Information Highway while Driving – Three In-Vehicle Touch Screen Scrolling Methods and Driver Distraction,” PUC Online First

[3] Florian Schaub, Markus Hipp,
Frank Kargl, and
Michael Weber, “On Credibility Improvements for Automotive Navigation Systems,” PUC Online First

[4] Andrew L. Kun, Alexander Shyrokov, and Peter A. Heeman, “Interactions between Human-Human Multi-Threaded Dialogues and Driving,” PUC Online First