My name is Sarah Faltaous. I am an Egyptian student in the cognitive systems master program at the University of Ulm, currently doing my master thesis at Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen. I’m originally graduated from the German University in Cairo/Egypt, where I did my bachelor in Digital Media Engineering and Technology. I had a great chance of joining AutoUI  2017 conference in Oldenburg as a student volunteer and also as a work-in-progress poster presenter. This granted me the opportunity of meeting a lot of people from all over the world who share with me the same automotive domain interest. I’m keen on getting to know the various newly introduced technologies in this field, moreover, the human behavior towards them.

Lewis Chuang and Christiane Glatz received the Best Paper Award of the AutoUI 2017. For their study they were using EEG to understand why behavior to auditory in-vehicle notifications differs across test environments. Here you see Alexandra Sipatchin, me, Lewis Chuang, Shadan Sadeghianborojeni, Christiane Glatz and Susanne Boll (from left to right).

AutoUI offered the perfect environment for such purpose, as it granted the chance for the car manufacturers who represent the market and the scientists to communicate their different ideas, perspectives and concerns. I personally was impressed by a lot of demonstrated ideas; like the demo presented by the BMW group where I could feel a haptic feedback on my fingers by touching a button image reflection. This conference is like a gate to the future, where you get to broaden your horizon.

For me, one of the very interesting sessions was a workshop on interfaces that facilitate the user understanding of vehicle automation. It was a very interactive session where I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and talking to Prof. Mohan Trivedi from the University of California and Prof. Stephen Brewster from the University of Glasgow.

I am very grateful for the DFG for supporting us to go there and have this experience and I’m looking for to joining more and more conferences in the future.

Great Chance to Join AutoUI 2017

Sarah Faltaous is an Egyptian student in the cognitive systems master program at the University of Ulm, currently doing her master thesis at Max Planck institute for biological cybernetics in Tübingen. She originally graduated from the German University in Cairo/Egypt, where she did my bachelor in Digital Media Engineering and Technology.

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2 thoughts on “Great Chance to Join AutoUI 2017

  • 2017-10-17 at 10:54 AM
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    It was wonderful to see such enthusiasm in the next generation.

    @sarah: No mention whatsoever of your Audience Choice award for your poster?! You know, the one where I completely forgot to vote for you. :/

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    • 2017-10-17 at 2:30 PM
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      Maybe I dropped it because my own supervisor didn’t vote for me :D.
      It has been a great experience. I’m really thankful for your support.

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