Prof. Dr. Andreas Riener is a professor for "Human-machine interaction and virtual reality" at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt. He further has a co-appoint at CARISSMA (Center of Automotive Research on Integrated Safety Systems and Measurement Area) as research professor for "Human Factors and Driving Ergonomics”.  He received his PhD in computer science in 2009 (University of Linz, Austria) and was awarded the venia docendi in applied computer science in 2014. Andreas’ research interests include virtual testing of automated driving concepts (using mixed-reality approaches), driver behavior and safety, human factors in driver-vehicle interfaces, driving ergonomics, vital state estimation from psycho-physiological measures, as well as topics related to (over)trust, acceptance, and ethical issues in automated driving. He has worked on a number of EU, national, and industrial research projects and is an active reviewer for IEEE, ACM, Springer journals and conferences in the broader field of HCI and human factors.

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