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Prof. Dr. Ignacio Alvarez

Professor for Human-Centered Intelligent Systems

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Publications

2026

CHANDRAYAN, Vanchha und Ignacio ALVAREZ, 2026. LLMs in the Loop: A Survey of Language-Driven Driver Monitoring and Assistance Systems. Sensors, 26(9), 2870. ISSN 1424-8220. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3390/s26092870

2025

KAEHNE, Esther Carolina, Amelie PATZER, Julia LACHMANN und Ignacio ALVAREZ, 2025. Designing Multimodal In-Car Conversational Agents for Parents: A Simulator Study. Adjunct Conference Proceedings: 17th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, September 22-25, 2025, Brisbane, Australia. New York: ACM, Page 190-195. ISBN 979-8-4007-2014-7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744335.3758503
BERGER, Melanie, Patrick EBEL, Andreas RIENER, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Philipp WINTERSBERGER und Shadan SADEGHIAN, 2025. Sustainable by Design: A Workshop on Life-Cycle-Aware Future Mobility. Adjunct Conference Proceedings: 17th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, September 22-25, 2025, Brisbane, Australia. New York: ACM, Page 306-309. ISBN 979-8-4007-2014-7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744335.3749137
KARUR, Krishna Sahithi, Andreas RIENER, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Philipp WINTERSBERGER, Jeongeun PARK und Seulchan LEE, 2025. 1st Workshop on Exploring the Potential of XAI and HMI to Alleviate Ethical, Legal, and Social Conflicts in Automated Vehicles. Adjunct Conference Proceedings: 17th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, September 22-25, 2025, Brisbane, Australia. New York: ACM, Page 295-297. ISBN 979-8-4007-2014-7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744335.3749143
ROLLWAGEN, Alice, Ignacio ALVAREZ und Andreas RIENER, 2025. Reality Check: Real-World Observations of State-of-the-Art Driver Assistance Systems. Adjunct Conference Proceedings: 17th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, September 22-25, 2025, Brisbane, Australia. New York: ACM, Page 88-93. ISBN 979-8-4007-2014-7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744335.3758487
PEINTNER, Jakob, Carina MANGER, Ignacio ALVAREZ und Andreas RIENER, 2025. Enhancing Pedestrian Realism in Adverse-Weather Driving Simulations Using Motion Capture Data. Adjunct Conference Proceedings: 17th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, September 22-25, 2025, Brisbane, Australia. New York: ACM, Page 214-219. ISBN 979-8-4007-2014-7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744335.3758507
HUBER, Vinzenz Baptist, Finn Luca ERTL, Anja SCHLAAK, Hannah SIMSON und Ignacio ALVAREZ, 2025. Can an AI Voice Assistant reduce Stress for Drivers confronted with warning Signals?. Adjunct Conference Proceedings: 17th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, September 22-25, 2025, Brisbane, Australia. New York: ACM, Page 106-113. ISBN 979-8-4007-2014-7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3744335.3758490
CHOE, Mungyeong, Jiayuan DONG, Esther BOSCH, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Michael OEHL, Christophe JALLAIS, Areen ALSAID und Myounghoon JEON, 2025. Driving with Empathy: Workshop Report on AI-driven In-vehicle Empathic Agent Design for Automated Vehicles. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 69(1), 1770-1775. ISSN 1071-1813. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/10711813251369800

2024

GASSMANN, Bernd, Shreya DEY, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Fabian OBORIL und Kay-Ulrich SCHOLL, 2024. Application of Responsibility-Sensitive Safety in areas with limited visibility: Occlusions in RSS. 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). Piscataway: IEEE, Page 5976-5981. ISBN 979-8-3503-9946-2. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC57777.2023.10421912

2023

DONG, Jiayuan, Chihab NADRI, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Cyriel DIELS, Myeongkyu LEE, Jingyi LI, Pei Hsuan LIAO, Carina MANGER, Shadan SADEGHIAN, Martina SCHUSS, Bruce N. WALKER, Francesco WALKER, Yiyuan WANG und Myounghoon JEON, 2023. “Play Your Anger”: A Report on the Empathic In-vehicle Interface Workshop. 15th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces: Adjunct Conference Proceedings. New York: ACM, Page 168-173. ISBN 979-8-4007-0112-2. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3581961.3609865
ALVAREZ, Ignacio, Bernd GASSMANN, Frederik PASCH und Fabian OBORIL, 2023. RSS Demonstrator: a Tool for User Experience Interactions with Automated Driving Safety Models. 15th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces: Adjunct Conference Proceedings. New York: ACM, Page 180-185. ISBN 979-8-4007-0112-2. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3581961.3609894
CHOE, Mungyeong, Esther BOSCH, Jiayuan DONG, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Michael OEHL, Christophe JALLAIS, Areen ALSAID, Chihab NADRI und Myounghoon JEON, 2023. Emotion GaRage Vol. IV: Creating Empathic In-Vehicle Interfaces with Generative AIs for Automated Vehicle Contexts. 15th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces: Adjunct Conference Proceedings. New York: ACM, Page 234-236. ISBN 979-8-4007-0112-2. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3581961.3609828
PAN, Fenglian, Yinwei ZHANG, Larry HEAD, Jian LIU, Maria ELLI und Ignacio ALVAREZ, 2023. Quantifying Error Propagation in Multi-Stage Perception System of Autonomous Vehicles via Physics-Based Simulation. 2022 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). Piscataway: IEEE, Page 2511-2522. ISBN 978-1-6654-7661-4. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC57314.2022.10015496

2022

RIENER, Andreas, Myounghoon JEON und Ignacio ALVAREZ, RIENER, Andreas, Myounghoon JEON und Ignacio ALVAREZ, Editors, 2022. User experience design in the era of automated driving. Cham: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-77725-8. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77726-5
NADRI, Chihab, Jiayuan DONG, Jingyi LI, Ignacio ALVAREZ und Myounghoon JEON, 2022. Emotion GaRage Vol. III: A Workshop on Affective In-Vehicle Display Applications. Adjunct Proceedings: 14th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. New York: ACM, Page 186-188. ISBN 978-1-4503-9428-4. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544999.3550161
FRISON, Anna-Katharina und Andreas RIENER, 2022. The “DAUX Framework”: A Need-Centered Development Approach to Promote Positive User Experience in the Development of Driving Automation. In: RIENER, Andreas, Myounghoon JEON und Ignacio ALVAREZ, Editors User Experience Design in the Era of Automated Driving. Cham: Springer, Page 237-271. ISBN 978-3-030-77725-8. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77726-5_10
TASOUDIS, Stavros und Andreas RIENER, 2022. UX design for automated driving: industry perspective. In: RIENER, Andreas, Myounghoon JEON und Ignacio ALVAREZ, Editors User experience design in the era of automated driving. Cham: Springer, Page 273-303. ISBN 978-3-030-77725-8. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77726-5_11
NADRI, Chihab, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Esther BOSCH, Michael OEHL, Michael BRAUN, Jennifer HEALEY, Christophe JALLAIS, Wendy JU, Jingyi LI und Myounghoon JEON, 2022. Empathic vehicle design: Use cases and design directions from two workshops. In: DINIZ JUNQUEIRA BARBOSA, Simone, Cliff LAMPE, Caroline APPERT und David SHAMMA, Editors CHI'22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York: ACM. ISBN 978-1-4503-9156-6. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519623
WINTERSBERGER, Philipp und Andreas RIENER, 2022. In-situ analysis of behavior patterns and user experience of automated shuttle bus users. In: RIENER, Andreas, Myounghoon JEON und Ignacio ALVAREZ, Editors User experience design in the era of automated driving. Cham: Springer, Page 505-531. ISBN 978-3-030-77725-8. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77726-5_19

2021

GASSMANN, Bernd, Fabian OBORIL, Ignacio ALVAREZ und Kay-Ulrich SCHOLL, 2021. An Online Safety Guard For Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC). Piscataway: IEEE, Page 2575-2581. ISBN 978-1-7281-9142-3. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC48978.2021.9565101
NAUMANN, Maximilian, Florian WIRTH, Fabian OBORIL, Kay-Ulrich SCHOLL, Maria ELLI, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Jack WEAST und Christoph STILLER, 2021. On Responsibility Sensitive Safety in Car-following Situations - A Parameter Analysis on German Highways. 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV). Piscataway: IEEE, Page 83-90. ISBN 978-1-7281-5394-0. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/IV48863.2021.9575420
LIU, Xiruo, Lily YANG, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Kathiravetpillai SIVANESAN, Arvind MERWADAY, Fabian OBORIL, Cornelius BUERKLE, Manoj SASTRY und Leonardo Gomes BALTAR, 2021. MISO-V: Misbehavior Detection for Collective Perception Services in Vehicular Communications. 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV). Piscataway: IEEE, Page 369-376. ISBN 978-1-7281-5394-0. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/IV48863.2021.9575970
MERWADAY, Arvind, Satish C. JHA, Kathiravetpillai SIVANESAN, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Leonardo Gomes BALTAR, Vesh Raj Sharma BANJADE und Suman A. SEHRA, 2021. Demo: Infrastructure Assisted Efficient Collective Perception Service for Connected Vehicles. In: KARGL, Frank, Onur ALTINTAS, Christoph SOMMER, Takamasa HIGUCHI und Florian KLINGLER, Editors 2021 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC). Piscataway: IEEE, Page 119-120. ISBN 978-1-6654-4450-7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/VNC52810.2021.9644671
RODIONOVA, Alena, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Maria ELLI, Fabian OBORIL, Johannes QUAST und Rahul MANGHARAM, 2021. How safe is safe enough? Automatic Safety Constraints Boundary Estimation for Decision-Making in Automated Vehicles. 2020 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV). Piscataway: IEEE, Page 1457-1464. ISBN 978-1-7281-6673-5. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/IV47402.2020.9304756

2020

JANSSEN, Christian P., Linda Ng BOYLE, Wendy JU, Andreas RIENER und Ignacio ALVAREZ, 2020. Agents, environments, scenarios: A framework for examining models and simulations of human-vehicle interaction. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2020(8), 100214. ISSN 2590-1982. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2020.100214
JANSSEN, Christian P., Ronald SCHROETER, Nicola J. BIDWELL, Yong Gu JI, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Shan BAO, Myounghoon JEON, Linda Ng BOYLE, Stella F. DONKER, Lewis CHUANG, Wendy JU und Andrew KUN, 2020. Auto-UI: Global Perspectives. Interactions, 27(6), 7-9. ISSN 1558-3449. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3429265
CHAI, Chen, Xianming ZENG, Ignacio ALVAREZ und Maria ELLI, 2020. Evaluation of Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS) Model based on Human-in-the-loop Driving Simulation. 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). Piscataway: IEEE. ISBN 978-1-7281-4149-7. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC45102.2020.9294637
NADRI, Chihab, Jingyi LI, Esther BOSCH, Michael OEHL, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Michael BRAUN und Myounghoon JEON, 2020. Emotion GaRage Vol. II: A Workshop on Affective In-Vehicle Display Design. Adjunct Proceedings: 12th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. New York: ACM, Page 106-108. ISBN 978-1-4503-8066-9. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3409251.3411736
SALAY, Rick, Krzysztof CZARNECKI, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Maria ELLI, Sean SEDWARDS und Jack WEAST, 2020. PURSS: Towards Perceptual Uncertainty Aware Responsibility Sensitive Safety with ML. In: ESPINOZA, Huáscar, José HERNÁNDEZ-ORALLO, Xin Cynthia CHEN, Seán S. ÓHÉIGEARTAIGH, Xiaowei HUANG, Mauricio CASTILLO-EFFEN, Richard MALLAH und John MCDERMID, Editors Proceedings of the Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety (SafeAI 2020), co-located with 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020). Aachen: RWTH Aachen, Page 91-95. Available at: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2560/

2018

FRISON, Anna-Katharina, Andreas RIENER, Myounghoon JEON, Bastian PFLEGING und Ignacio ALVAREZ, 2018. Workshop on Designing Highly Automated Driving Systems as Radical Innovation. Adjunct Proceedings: 10th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. New York: ACM, Page 37-43. ISBN 978-1-4503-5947-4. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3239092.3239097

2017

FRISON, Anna-Katharina, Bastian PFLEGING, Andreas RIENER, Myounghoon JEON, Ignacio ALVAREZ und Wendy JU, 2017. Workshop on User-Centered Design for Automated Driving Systems. Adjunct Proceedings: The 9th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. New York: ACM, Page 22-27. ISBN 978-1-4503-5151-5. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3131726.3131734

2016

RIENER, Andreas, Myounghoon JEON, Ignacio ALVAREZ, Bastian PFLEGING, Alexander G. MIRNIG, Manfred TSCHELIGI und Lewis CHUANG, 2016. 1st Workshop on Ethically Inspired User Interfaces for Automated Driving. AutomotiveUI 2016, 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, Adjunct Proceedings. New York: ACM, Page 217-220. ISBN 978-1-4503-4654-2. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3004323.3005687
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