Understanding motion comfort in automated driving : bridging vehicle dynamics, driving style, and human-machine interaction

Riener, Andreas (author), Pretto, Paolo (author), Sodnik, Jaka (author), Stojmenova Pečečnik, Kristina (author), Papaioannou, Georgios (author), Bazilinskyy, Pavlo (author), Meschtscherjakov, Alexander (author)

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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: motion comfort, integrated framework, automated driving, automotive user interfaces, HMI
• Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
• Organization: FE - Faculty of Electrical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 381-385
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-189397
• UDC: 629.33-52:004.8
• ISSN on article: 2168-4081
• DOI: 10.1145/3828158.3834788
• COBISS.SI-ID: 293679363
• Publication date in RUL: 05.10.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: 18th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces : September 20-23, 2026
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
• COBISS.SI-ID: 293651203

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• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: udobje gibanja, integrirani okvir, avtomatizirana vožnja, avtomobilski uporabniški vmesniki, HMI