Fluid HSI Symposium 2024: Paul Schouten / TomTom - Introduction

At TomTom, Paul is UX Designer/Design Leader at TomTom. The UX Concepts team is constantly looking into the future to understand future user needs & experiences. Paul gave a keynote at the Fluid HSI Symposium 2024 on "A natural navigation experience - How to design natural & fluid UX". Paul's aim is to develop intuitive & natural user experiences that make technology integrate into the lives of humans, so that they become invisible while at the same time enriching people’s lives.

On June 4th and 5th, 2024, the FLUID HSI Symposium took place in Graz for the second time. The Goal: To discuss the interaction between drivers, vehicles, and road users for safe and efficient mobility in complex environments, identifying challenges and opportunities, formulating expectations, and developing common visions.

The second “FLUID HSI Symposium” aimed to bring together different players insights to discuss important issues concerning human-machine-interaction. Keynotes were given by experts on global HMI trends, standardization, user centric navigation and interaction with racing cars drivers.

Additionally, various workshops, presentations, and discussions were designed to stimulate interactions and raise innovative ideas. This enabled the “FLUD HSI Symposium” to develop a common understanding of future problems within a heterogeneous group.

The VIRTUAL VEHICLE “FLUID HSI platform” understands itself as an enabler to launch joint projects, activities, standards and best practices recommendations.