Event

The 18th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutoUI 2026) will take place in Gothenburg in September 2026, bringing one of the world’s leading research forums on human-centred mobility and automotive interaction to the SAFER ecosystem and the wider West Swedish innovation landscape. This is a highly relevant and strategically important activity for Gothenburg, and we hope many SAFER partners will take the opportunity to engage through participation, submissions, exhibitions, sponsorships, workshops, and networking activities.

Several organisations from the SAFER network are actively involved in the organisation of the conference, including Chalmers University of Technology, the University of Gothenburg, Volvo Group, Volvo Cars, Geely, AstaZero, RISE, and other partners across academia, industry, and society. SAFER strongly supports this engagement and will host the Doctoral Colloquium as well as contribute to seminars and activities connected to the conference. We see AutoUI 2026 as an important step in our shared knowledge-building around future safe and sustainable mobility systems, human-machine interaction, automation, user behaviour, and inclusive mobility.

Date: September 20-23, 2026
(Doctoral Colloquium on September 19, 2026)

Venues:

• SAFER – Doctoral Colloquium (September 19, 2026)
• Natrium at the University of Gothenburg – Workshops (September 20, 2026)
• Uni3 at Geely – Main track (September 21-23, 2026)

Conference website: https://www.auto-ui.org/26/

About:

• A premier global conference for research in the automotive and mobility domain, bringing together researchers and practitioners to explore technical and human-centred aspects of interfaces, vehicles, and emerging mobility systems.
• It is a non-profit forum that yearly attracts 200+ participants from academia, industry, and government. It has previously been hosted in Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia, and is now being organized in Sweden for the first time.
• Interdisciplinary focus spanning Engineering, Computer Science, Psychology, and Human Factors.
• The 2026 theme is “Future-Proof Mobility: Designing Safe & Sustainable Mobility Systems”. The conference focuses on research addressing a broad range of safety and mobility challenges involving diverse road users, including pedestrians, micromobility users, drivers with varying abilities, and automated mobility solutions across all automation levels, including control transitions and remote operations.
• The programme includes workshops, scientific paper presentations, poster sessions, video and interactive demonstrations, keynote talks, panel discussions, technical visits, and exhibitions presented by conference sponsors.

Registration: https://www.auto-ui.org/26/registration/#tm-main

Sponsorship and Exhibition:
Want to showcase your research, products, tools, or initiatives to leading international experts and practitioners shaping the future of traffic safety, sustainability, and human-machine interaction? Bookings for exhibition and sponsorship are open. Contact: sponsors@auto-ui.org

Submissions:
Submit your contribution to the Work-in-Progress, Workshop, Video, or Interactive Demo tracks by June 18, 2026.

Examples of topics:

• Safe and sustainable mobility and infrastructure
• Ethics, responsibility, and human-centred experience
• Accessibility, inclusion, and diverse users
• User behaviour, performance, and attention
• Interfaces, devices, and interaction techniques
• Automation and human-machine collaboration
• Modelling, simulation, and computational methods
• Evaluation, validation, and benchmarking
• Speculative, radical, and future-facing perspectives

Submission deadlines:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bGzumiH0h2Du7jYckxfemVvdJu0BByNX/view