Touchdown in the Urban Sky: Designing Human-Centered Futures for eVTOLs and City Life

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Urban Air Mobility (UAM), enabled by electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles (eVTOLs), is increasingly envisioned as a future layer of urban transportation. Existing UAM research has focused mainly on technical feasibility, airspace management, infrastructure, and vehicle operation, while less attention has been paid to how UAM may reshape everyday urban life, public space, human-vehicle interaction, social acceptance, and trust in highly automated aerial systems.This workshop invites AutomotiveUI researchers, designers, practitioners, students, and policymakers to explore human-centered and trustworthy UAM futures. It combines The Urban Air Experience Probe, a lightweight eVTOL rooftop-landing simulation centered on the final approach and touchdown phase, with the Urban Air Futures Canvas that prompts participants to examine UAM from the perspectives of passengers, pilots, and bystanders. Participants will identify context-specific tensions in touchdown scenarios and translate them into societal and trust-related challenges. Drawing on AutomotiveUI work on automated driving, the workshop then supports participants in developing trust-oriented HMI concepts and governance response strategies. © 2026 Copyright held by the owner/author(s).

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