The Bosch Connected World 2022 took place in Berlin at the beginning of November. It was a huge and good event with over 1,500 participants on-site and 80 exhibitors. 140 speakers performed on three stages. In this episode, I summarize and comment on the most important statements. It is about trends, megatrends and new technologies, user experience, and the mobility of the future.

I've heard more than enough derogatory and frustrating remarks about the work of HMI, UX, and UI developers in my professional life. Sometimes you need patience and good standing. In this podcast episode, I analyze a few personality development topics and see how they can help you.

I keep asking my listeners which topics are on their minds, what questions they have, and where I can help. In today's episode, I talk about three different topics. 1. HMIs in cars should be different than those on smartphones, even though it's so tempting to just copy the apps. 2. Technology brings both losses and gains in skills. 3. There are good reasons for icons and for fonts in HMIs.

There are various processes, ways, and procedures to make technology sexy in order to achieve a positive user experience. In this podcast episode, I'm talking about user-centricity, context dependency, what role usability plays in the context of user experience, the agility and linearity of processes, and about product testing.

After the short summer break of the human-technology podcast, there is a slightly shorter special edition today, with which I am returning from vacation. It's about my plans for the rest of the year, a book that surprised me, and I'm nagging about Android Auto again.

It's always how we deal with it, how we handle the technology, what we do with it when, and where what makes it good or bad. Our actions, our decisions, and our thinking define the value of technology. That's the good and bad news simultaneously: it's in our hands, we can make the change, and drive thought and action forward. We can surrender, abandon the catches of Big Tech, of product manufacturers and service providers. We as individuals, we as a society, and we as humanity have it in our hands.

Everyone has an opinion about HMI, everyone has emotions when he or she interacts with technology. That's a good thing, but it doesn't lead to solutions that satisfy larger user groups. I discuss six parameters that you can use to analyze and develop HMIs.

New players in the vehicle industry have chased the established players in front of them, especially in the HMI (Human Machine Interface). They are catching up now, giant screens, buttonless dashboards, and feature updates via the air interface are standard in many new vehicles. It's time to look at some of the technologies and analyze their advantages and disadvantages from a user's perspective.

Basically, a car is a technology designed to move humans and goods from A to B. It fulfills this core task in most cases. However, and this is what makes the automobile as an artifact so exciting, it plays many other roles in the lives of the users. I've looked at three of those roles beyond mobility and discuss them in this episode of the Human-Technology Podcast.

The CarHMI in Berlin is one of the major conferences on HMI in vehicles. The term HMI is used very broadly here, covering a wide range from HMI technologies to topics such as artificial intelligence in vehicles and automated driving to development processes. I picked out five speaker statements, analyzed them, and commented on them.