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.
Go watch the video or read the paper.

Publications

2022
Download	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
Download	Michael Braun, Thomas Weber, Florian Alt Affective Automotive User Interfaces - Reviewing the State of Driver Affect Research and Emotion Regulation in the Car In: ACM Computing Surveys. December 01, 2021. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	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)
Download	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
Download	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)
Download	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)
Download	Michael Braun, Jingyi Li, Thomas Weber, Bastian Pfleging, Andreas Butz, Florian Alt What If Your Car Would Care? Exploring Use Cases For Affective Automotive User Interfaces In MobileHCI '20: 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. September 01, 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	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)
Download	Michael Braun, Florian Alt Character Computing In Human-Computer Interaction Series: Character Computing. January 28, 2020. Springer International Publishing, undefined. (bib)
Download	Michael Braun, Florian Alt Identifying Personality Dimensions for Characters of Digital Agents In: Character Computing (2020). Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. (bib)
2019
Download	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)
Download	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)
Download	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. September 02, 2019. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany. (bib)
Download	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. September 02, 2019. Springer, Berlin-Heidelberg, Germany. (bib)
Download	Michael Braun, Florian Alt Affective Assistants: a Matter ofStates and Traits In CHI EA'19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. May 03, 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Michael Braun, Anja Mainz, Ronee Chadowitz, Bastian Pfleging, Florian Alt At Your Service: Designing Voice AssistantPersonalities to Improve Automotive User Interfaces Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. May 01, 2019. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (bib)
Download	Michael Braun, Jonas Schubert, Bastian Pfleging, Florian Alt Improving Driver Emotions with Affective Strategies Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. April 16, 2019. (bib)
Download	Michael Braun, Nora Broy, Bastian Pfleging, Florian Alt Visualizing natural language interaction for conversational in-vehicle information systems to minimize driver distraction Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces. April 16, 2019. (bib)
2018
Download	Michael Braun, Bastian Pfleging, Florian Alt A Survey to Understand Emotional Situations on the Road and What They Mean for Affective Automotive UIs Multimodal Technologies and Interaction. December 01, 2018. MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. (bib)
Download	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)
Download	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)
Download	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)
Download	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)
Download	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)
Download	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)
Download	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
Download	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)
Download	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