Dr. Michael Braun
I no longer work at LMU. You can still shoot me an E-Mail, follow my updates on Google Scholar and ACM or connect via LinkedIn.My dissertation on user-aware and affective interaction in automotive user interfaces is now available online at the LMU Library.
Projects
ASAM is a free-to-use online application built to repetitively sample the user's emotional state, based on the dimensions arousal and valence. We optimized the application for usage in situations where undivided attention to a primary task is of importance (e.g. driving), giving special focus on keeping the induced workload at a minimum.
Check it out at asam.drivingstudy.de
In cooperation with Fraunhofer IIS we investigated how gesture controls and emotion detection technology can shape interaction in future cars. The public setup included a driving simulator which was free to use for any passer-by at JOSEPHS Service Manufaktur in Nuremburg.
This work was presented at INTERACT '19.
You can do a virtual tour or watch the video.
We gave different characters to an in-car voice assistant and examined its effects in a real-world driving study. Participants experienced a personalized character in use cases covering driving functionalities, connected services, and proactive suggestions.
This work was presented at CHI '19.
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Publications
2022 | |
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Chihab Nadri, Ignacio Alvarez, Esther Bosch, Michael Oehl, Michael Braun, Jennifer Healey, Christophe Jallais, Wendy Ju, Jingyi Li, Myhounghoon Jeon
Empathic vehicle design: Use cases and design directions from two workshops In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22 EA). New Orleans, USA. April 30 - May 5, 2022. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
2021 | |
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Michael Braun, Florian Weber, Florian Alt
Affective Automotive User Interfaces - Reviewing the State of Emotion Regulation in the Car In ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 54, No. 7, Article 137. September 2021. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
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Andreas Riener, Bastian Pfleging, Henrik Detjen, Michael Braun, Jakob Peintner
9thWorkshop Automotive HMIs: Natural and Adaptive UIs to Support Future Vehicles In: Mensch und Computer 2021 - Workshopband. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (bib) |
2020 | |
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Michael Braun, Jingyi Li, Florian Weber, Bastian Pfleging, Andreas Butz, Florian Alt
What If Your Car Would Care? Exploring Use Cases For Affective Automotive User Interfaces In MobileHCI'20: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference with Mobile Devices and Services. Virtual Conference. October 05 - 08, 2020. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
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Chihab Nadri, Jingyi Li, Esther Bosch, Michael Oehl, Ignacio Alvarez, Michael Braun
Emotion GaRage Vol. II: A Workshop on Affective In-Vehicle Display Design In AutomotiveUI '20: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Virtual Event. September 21 - 22, 2020. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
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Michael Oehl, Klas Ihme, Anna-Antonia Pape, Mathias Vukelic, Michael Braun
Affective Use Cases for Empathic Vehicles in Highly Automated Driving: Results of an Expert Workshop In HCII 2020: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Human Computer Interaction. Copenhagen, Denmark. July 19-24 2020. (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Florian Alt
Identifying Personality Dimensions for Characters of Digital Agents In: Character Computing (2020). Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. (bib) |
2019 | |
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Jingyi Li, Michael Braun, Andreas Butz, Florian Alt
Designing Emotion-Aware In-Car Interactions for Unlike Markets In AutomotiveUI '19: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Utrecht, Netherlands. September 22 - 25, 2019. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
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Michael Oehl, Klas Ihme, Esther Bosch, Anna-Antonia Pape, Mathias Vukelic, Michael Braun
Emotions in the Age of Automated Driving: Developing Use Cases for Empathic Cars In Mensch und Computer '19, Hamburg, Germany, September 8 - 11, 2019. (bib) |
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Mariam Hassib, Michael Braun, Bastian Pfleging, Florian Alt
Detecting and Influencing Driver Emotions using Psycho-physiological Sensors and Ambient Light In INTERACT '19: Proceedings of the 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Paphos, Cyprus, September 2 - 6, 2019. (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Ronee Chadowitz, Florian Alt
User Experience of Driver State Visualizations: a Look at Demographics and Personalities In INTERACT '19: Proceedings of the 17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Paphos, Cyprus, September 2 - 6, 2019. (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Anja Mainz, Ronee Chadowitz, Bastian Pfleging, Florian Alt
At Your Service: Designing Voice Assistant Personalities to Improve Automotive User Interfaces In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings (CHI 2019), Glasgow, UK, May 4 - 9, 2019. ACM, New York, NY, USA, (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Florian Alt
Affective Assistants: a Matter of States and Traits In CHI'19 Extended Abstracts: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. Glasgow, UK, May 4 - 9, 2019. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Jonas Schubert, Bastian Pfleging, Florian Alt
Improving Driver Emotions with Affective Strategies In Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 2019; 3(1):21. MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Nora Broy, Bastian Pfleging, Florian Alt
Visualizing Natural Language Interaction for Conversational In-Vehicle Information Systems to Minimize Driver Distraction In Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (2019). Springer Nature, Cham. (bib) |
2018 | |
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Niklas Müller, Bettina Eska, Richard Schäffer, Sarah Theres Völkel, Michael Braun, Gesa Wiegand, Florian Alt
Arch'n'Smile: A Jump'n'Run Game Using Facial Expression Recognition Control For Entertaining Children During Car Journeys In MUM '18: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. Cairo, Egypt. November 25 - 28, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Sarah Theres Völkel, Gesa Wiegand, Thomas Puls, Daniel Steidl, Jannick Weiß, Florian Alt
The Smile is The New Like: Controlling Music with Facial Expressions to Minimize Driver Distraction In MUM '18: Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. Cairo, Egypt. November 25 - 28, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Bastian Pfleging, Florian Alt
A Survey to Understand Emotional Situations on the Road and What They Mean for Affective Automotive UIs In Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. 2018; 2(4):75. MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Simon Weiser, Bastian Pfleging, Florian Alt
A Comparison of Emotion Elicitation Methods for Affective Driving Studies In AutomotiveUI '18: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Toronto, ON, Canada. September 23 - 25, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Florian Roider, Florian Alt, Tom Gross
Automotive Research in the Public Space - Towards Deployment-Based Prototypes For Real Users In AutomotiveUI '18: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Toronto, ON, Canada. September 23 - 25, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Katharina Frison, Sarah Theres Völkel, Florian Alt, Heinrich Hussmann, Andreas Riener
Beyond Transportation: How to Keep Users Attached When They Are Neither Driving nor Owning Automated Cars? In AutomotiveUI '18: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Toronto, ON, Canada. September 23 - 25, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
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Michael Braun
Are Autonomous Vehicles The Sentient Robots We Were Promised? In CHI '18 Workshop: Interacting with Autonomous Vehicles: Learning from other Domains. Montreal, QC, Canada, April 22, 2018. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
2017 | |
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Michael Braun, Karina Serres
ASAM: An Emotion Sampling Method for the Automotive Industry In AutomotiveUI '17: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications Adjunct (bib) |
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Michael Braun, Bastian Pfleging, Nora Broy, Florian Alt
A Design Space for Conversational In-Vehicle Information Systems In MobileHCI '17: Adjunct Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Vienna, Austria, September 4-7, 2017. ACM, New York, NY, USA. (bib) |
Community Engagement
- Reviewer for Augmented Human, Automotive UI, CHI, Mensch und Computer, Mobile HCI, JMUI, and UIST
- Student Volunteer at CHI 2018
- Proceedings Chair at MUM 2018
- Programm Committee at Mensch und Computer 2019