Awards

Reviewers' Choice Award
Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023 (Interact '23)
For the paper: Introducing Sharemote: A Tangible Interface for Collaborative TV Control

Best Paper Award
14th International ACM Conference on AUTOMOTIVE USER INTERFACES (AutomotiveUI'22)
For the paper: Together in the Car: A Comparison of Five Concepts to Support Driver-Passenger Collaboration

Honorable Mention Award
12th International ACM Conference on AUTOMOTIVE USER INTERFACES (AutomotiveUI '20)
For the paper: Distance-Dependent eHMIs for the Interaction Between Automated Vehicles and Pedestrians

2023

Social Control Experience Design: A Cross-Domain Investigation on Media
Melanie Berger
PhD Thesis, Industrial Design, Eindhoven University of Technology. Thesis download

Collaborative TV Control: Towards Co-Experience and Social Connectedness
Melanie Berger, Rutger Verstegen, Bahareh Barati, Harm A. van Essen, and Regina Bernhaupt
In: Abdelnour Nocera, J. et al. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14144. Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42286-7_20

Introducing Sharemote: A Tangible Interface for Collaborative TV Control
Melanie Berger, Rutger Verstegen, Harm A. van Essen, and Regina Bernhaupt
In: Abdelnour Nocera, J. et al. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2023. INTERACT 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14144. Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42286-7_21

Empowering Driver-Passenger Collaboration: Designing In-Car Systems with a Focus on Social Connectedness, Fairness, and Team Performance
Melanie Berger, Debargha Dey, Aditya Dandekar, Bahareh Barati, Bastian Pfleging, and Regina Bernhaupt
In: International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. Vol. 39, 16, HCI for Future Mobility, p. 3180-3202. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2205769

Designing for Collaborative Non-Driving-Related Activities in Future Cars: Fairness and Team Performance
Melanie Berger, Debargha Dey, Bahareh Barati, Bastian Pfleging, and Regina Bernhaupt
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Vol. 7, No. MHCI, Article 202. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3604249

2022

Global news or romantic movies: how customer values are key for the entertainment experience
Melanie Berger, Regina Bernhaupt, and Guillaume Pottier
International Broadcasting Convention (IBC 2022), London, GB, 9. 

Design for Social Control of Shared Media: A Comparative Study of Five Concepts
Melanie Berger, Bahareh Barati, Bastian Pfleging, and Regina Bernhaupt
Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI '22), October 8-12, 2022, Aarhus, Denmark DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3546155.3546694

Social Control Interaction Framework: Design to Technically Support a Group of Users in Making Control Decisions Together
Melanie Berger
CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 56, 1–6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3503802

Together in the Car: A Comparison of Five Concepts to Support Driver-Passenger Collaboration
Melanie Berger, Debargha Dey, Aditya Dandekar, Bahareh Barati, Regina Bernhaupt, and Bastian Pfleging
14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '22), September 17--20, 2022, Seoul, Republic of Korea. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3543174.3544940

Authority vs. Responsibility: Workshop on Revisiting Socio-Technical System Approaches to Design for Convenient Forms of Smart Mobility
Regina Bernhaupt, Bastian Pfleging, Alexander Meschtscherjakov, Debargha Dey, and Melanie Berger
14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '22 Adjunct), September 17--20, 2022, Seoul, Republic of Korea. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544999.3551346

Together Distracted? The Effect of Driver-Passenger Collaboration on Workload, Glance Behavior, and Driving Performance
Melanie Berger, Patrick Ebel, Debargha Dey, Aditya Dandekar, Bahareh Barati, Bastian Pfleging, and Regina Bernhaupt
14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '22 Adjunct), September 17--20, 2022, Seoul, Republic of Korea. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544999.3552318

Considering Users' Personal Values in User-Centered Design Processes for Media and Entertainment Services
Melanie Berger, Guillaume Pottier, Bastian Pfleging, and Regina Bernhaupt
9th IFIP WG 13.2 International Working Conference, HCSE 2022, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 24 – August 26, 2022,

A personalized pro-active smart environment to support a sustainable media usage
Guillaume Pottier, Melanie Berger, Kelly Fransen, and Regina Bernhaupt
International Broadcasting Convention (IBC 2022), London, GB, 13. 

Explicit Communication of Non-Yielding Intent in eHMIs: Investigating the Need for Explicit Communication of Non-Yielding Intent through a Slow-Pulsing Light Band (SPLB) eHMI in AV-Pedestrian Interaction
Debargha Dey, Azra Habibobic, Melanie Berger, Devanshi Bansal, Raymond Cuijpers, and Marieke Martens
14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '22), September 17-20, 2022, Seoul, Republic of Korea. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3543174.3546086

How to Display Vehicle Information to Users of Automated Vehicles When Conducting Non-Driving-Related Activities
Aditya Dandekar, Lesley-Ann Mathis, Melanie Berger, and Bastian Pfleging
Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact., Vol. 6, No. MHCI, Article 206. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3546741

2021

Social Control - Enabling Control for Groups of People
Regina Bernhaupt, Melanie Berger, and Guillaume Pottier
International Broadcasting Convention (IBC 2021), London, GB, 8. Link: https://www.ibc.org/download?ac=18667

Exploratory Breaks: A User Interface that Encourages Car Drivers to Take Valuable Breaks
Melanie Berger, Aditya Dandekar, Regina Bernhaupt, and Bastian Pfleging
13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 97–101. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3473682.3480272

InShift: A Shifting Infotainment System to Enhance Co-Driver Experience and Collaboration
Melanie Berger, Anil Eranil, Regina Bernhaupt, and Bastian Pfleging
13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 10–15. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3473682.3480254

Designing for a Convenient In-Car Passenger Experience: A Repertory Grid Study
Melanie Berger, Bastian Pfleging, and Regina Bernhaupt 
In: Ardito C. et al. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021. INTERACT 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12933. Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85616-8_9

An AR-Enabled Interactive Car Door to Extend In-Car Infotainment Systems for Rear Seat Passengers
Melanie Berger, Aditya Dandekar, Regina Bernhaupt, and Bastian Pfleging
Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 404, 1–6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3451589

Communicating the intention of an automated vehicle to pedestrians: The contributions of eHMI and vehicle behavior
Debargha Dey, Andrii Matviienko, Melanie Berger, Bastian Pfleging, Marieke Martens, und Jacques Terken
In: IT - Information Technology. 63, 2, p. 123-141 19 p. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/itit-2020-0025

2020

Distance-Dependent eHMIs for the Interaction Between Automated Vehicles and Pedestrians
Debargha Dey, Kai Holländer, Melanie Berger, J.H. (Berry) Eggen, Marieke H. Martens, Bastian Pfleging, and Jacques M.B. Terken
In 12th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 192–204. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3409120.3410642

2019

A Tactile Interaction Concept for In-Car Passenger Infotainment Systems
Melanie Berger, Regina Bernhaupt, and Bastian Pfleging
In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications: Adjunct Proceedings (AutomotiveUI '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 109–114. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3349263.3351914