Have you recently worked on a project related to car HMI and User Experience? Did your project accomplish outstanding results or promises to achieve great outcomes? Then join us for the launch of our Car HMi Award ceremony 2018 in Detroit and share your success.

Presented by we.CONECT, the prestigious Car HMi Award exclusively recognises, celebrates and honours exceptional projects in the following three categories:

1. Most User-Friendly HMI Feature
2. Most Innovative HMI Feature

Official Award Ceremony
We are inviting all global industry leaders and pioneers to apply with their UX and HMI projects and showcase their outstanding achievements. Based on all entries, the jury will nominate 3 projects in each category, which will get the unique chance to be presented during the official Award Ceremony & Networking Dinner on April 23, 2018 in Detroit. All winners will not only receive a certificate and an exclusive trophy, but we.CONECT will also donate € 1,000 to a charity of our choice.

Apply now for the Car HMi USA Award and get recognised for your achievements. Please also see our terms and conditions for further details.

What’s in it for you?
• Shine and increase the visibility of your project and business
• Boost your project and foster enthusiasm of your efforts among your colleagues, employees, management and team members
• Help a good cause as we will select a charity on behalf of the winners and exclusively donate € 1,000 to support their individual projects
• Celebrate your achievements and the hard work you have put in
• Share your success with the entire Car HMi community

Key Dates
Application deadline: March 23, 2018
Announcement of nominees: March 2018
Award ceremony: April 23, 2018

Car HMi Award Winner 2017

Proud winner of the Car HMi award 2017 in the category ‘Most User-Friendly HMI Feature’ was eyeSight Technologies with their project ‘eyeSight Driver Monitoring’ – a solution that utilises deep learning and AI to monitor the driver’s attention on the road, detecting when the driver is distracted or shows signs of drowsiness. Using eyelid tracking, iris localization and head pose tracking, eyeSight analyses both eye openness and gaze vector in order to report the driver’s drowsiness and inattentiveness to enable precautionary alerts and avoid hazardous situations on the road.

Well-deserved winner in the category ‘Most innovative HMI feature’ was Felix Ros (Eindhoven University of Technology) with his project ‘Between you and your Autonomous Car, there’s Stewart’. Stewart is a tactile interface designed for a fully autonomous car. Its objective is to accommodate a healthy relationship between man and machine, which is achieved by an intuitive and expressive form of interaction.

Winner of the special jury award was SemVox GmbH with their project ‘ODP Workbench’, which is is a task-based, comprehensive, sophisticated, eclipse-based toolchain for the development and deployment of next-generation voice-based HMIs. With the ODP Workbench, developers have all the tools they need to build the most powerful, advanced and versatile voice-based interaction systems in less time and with better results than with any other existing platform, making full use of AI-technologies such as machine learning, reasoning, and profiling in one single application.

Supporting a good cause is at the very heart of our ambitions. Throughout the years we have carefully researched and selected charities that are close to our heart and deserve special recognition.

Car HMi Charity Partner 2017: GermanNow!

With more than 1,000 volunteers in Berlin, GermanNOW! ensures that refugees get access to basic German language skills for free, regardless of their country of origin or official status. The lessons are taking place in the emergency shelters inside a former department store in the Karl-Marx-Str and in the hangars of Tempelhof airport, the latter being one of Germany’s largest refugee shelters. The project was established in September 2015 in the gym Jahnsporthalle. GermanNOW! enables an immediate first contact with the German language right after the refugees’ arrival at emergency shelters and focusses on teaching basic, conversational German for refugees’ daily lives in Berlin. Their interaction concept in small groups allows an intensive learning process.

Terms and Conditions

• All details must be submitted in English
• The submitted application should be related to an HMi project at your company
• Only projects that have been implemented or are already in an implementation phase are being considered
• The implementation of the project must not date back longer than 2 years
• A company may nominate more than one project for the award
• The jury will only consider applicants who have completed the award application with all required details and will nominate projects for each category
• All nominees will be asked to prepare a 2 minute-long video showcasing their project. Style, format and content can be based on individual / corporate design
• The video will be shown live on stage at the award ceremony on April 23, 2018
• Besides being used for evaluation-purposes, the information provided by applicants may be published in further channels (website/portal/social media) by we.CONECT
• By submitting the application, you agree to the terms & conditions of we.CONECT
• We reserve the right to publish your project under your name and company name respectively. It is therefore advisable to ensure that all submissions are fully approved by your organisation before applying
• Decisions of the jury are final and may not be disputed. The jury will adhere to our award guidelines
• Failure to submit an award video (or further project documentation that is required at the event) within the given time frame, may unfortunately result in disqualification
• All nominees must be present at the award evening or alternatively send a representative
• No applications for the Car HMi Awards 2018 will be considered after the deadline March 23, 2018