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  3. Human Machine Cooperation (HMC)

Human Machine Cooperation (HMC)

Which technical innovations are relevant for humans? And how can humans meaningfully cooperate with machines to ensure that tasks are carried out better overall?

In addition to this, a key question is how humans can meaningfully cooperate with machines to ensure that tasks are carried out better overall. Both humans and machines can contribute to fi nd a solution. Good illustrations of this can be found in medicine. When carrying out diffi cult operations, for example on the human brain, virtual assistance systems can be used to provide the surgeon with important additional information – where exactly is the tumor; where are critical constrictions that require particular care?

In the intensive care, machines handle monitoring of patients’ vital signs, with medical personnel reacting accordingly. Empirical studies have, however, shown that numerous visual and acoustic alarm signals can be problematic since it is rarely necessary for personnel to actually intervene. In such cases the flow of information in not helpful but rather can be dangerous because it causes over-familiarization. A mere parallel existence of humans and machines can thus lead to a negative outcome. Human-machine cooperation is a better option, with the machines condensing information to generate a useful overall picture from many single parameters. Intuitive displays could then enable nursing personnel to quickly recognize whether patients are doing well or not.

Interactive systems are already being used in many diff erent environments today. In transportation modes such as cars, planes, or ships; in devices such as smartphones, tablets, or wearables; and in control rooms and voice-controlled devices. Conventional input and output modalities such as keyboards or monitors are increasingly being replaced by so-called »multimodal user interfaces« that incorporate multiple sensory channels. Intelligent assistants facilitate contextsensitive use and interaction with real objects in our daily environment. Ambient lighting can, for example, today be controlled using a smart device; acoustic signal, or voice command.

Depending on the application context, human-machine interaction and cooperation is subject to specifi c requirements regarding fitness for purpose; user-friendliness; acceptance; robustness; and security. Correspondingly, the Human Machine Cooperation competence cluster uses a variety of analysis, development, and evaluation methods to design and validate interactive or cooperative systems. Application focuses are, for example, assistive systems in vehicles, ships, healthcare, medicine, and personal health.

  • Architecture Frameworks (AF)
  • Cyber-Resilient Architectures and Security (CRAS)
  • Applied Artificial Intelligence (AAI)
  • Embedded System Design (ESD)
  • Human Machine Cooperation (HMC)
  • Multi-Scale Multi-Rate Simulation (MS²)
  • Sustainability
  • Safety Relevant Cyber Physical Systems (SRCPS)

Chairman of the Competence Cluster

Prof. Dr. techn. Susanne Boll-Westermann
Prof. Dr. techn.
Susanne Boll-Westermann

Manager of the Competence Cluster

Dr. Ing. Wilko Heuten
Dr. Ing.
Wilko Heuten

Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Lüdtke
Dr. rer. nat.
Andreas Lüdtke

Persons

A

Dr. Ing. Larbi Abdenebaoui

E-Mail: larbi.abdenebaoui(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-730, Room: E126

Dr. Swamy Ananthanarayan

E-Mail: swamy.ananthanarayan(at)offis.de, Room: E 120

Pedro Fernando Arizpe Gomez

E-Mail: PedroFernando.ArizpeGomez(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-741, Room: E66

B

Marcus Behrendt

E-Mail: marcus.behrendt(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-535, Room: D117

Dr.-Ing. Dietrich Boles

E-Mail: dietrich.boles(at)uni-oldenburg.de, Phone: 0441/9722-212, Room: E 105

Prof. Dr. techn. Susanne Boll-Westermann

E-Mail: susanne.boll(at)informatik.uni-oldenburg.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-213, Room: O 47

C

Vanessa Cobus

E-Mail: vanessa.cobus(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-219, Room: E118

E

Dr. rer. nat. Marco Eichelberg

E-Mail: marco.eichelberg(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-147, Room: E46

Patrick Elfert

E-Mail: Patrick.Elfert(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-460, Room: E47b

G

Jenny Inge Glitza

E-Mail: Jenny.Glitza(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-123

H

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Hein

E-Mail: andreas.hein(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 798-4450

Dr. Ing. Wilko Heuten

E-Mail: wilko.heuten(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-171, Room: E127

K

Simon Kannengießer

E-Mail: simon.kannengiesser(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-236, Room: E110

Christian Kowalski

E-Mail: christian.kowalski(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-706, Room: E64

Dr. Ing. Tobias Krahn

E-Mail: tobias.krahn(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-145, Room: E115

Karin Kuper-Thole

E-Mail: kuper(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-295, Room: O 127

L

Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Lüdtke

E-Mail: andreas.luedtke(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-530, Room: D106

M

Heiko Müller

E-Mail: heiko.mueller(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-138, Room: E108

Dr.-Ing. Frerk Müller-von Aschwege

E-Mail: Frerk.Mueller-von.Aschwege(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-146, Room: E50

O

Jan-Patrick Osterloh

E-Mail: jan-patrick.osterloh(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-524, Room: D107

P

Dr. phil. Max Pfingsthorn

E-Mail: max.pfingsthorn(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-450, Room: O84

R

Prof. Dr. Rainer Röhrig

E-Mail: rainer.roehrig(at)uni-oldenburg.de, Phone: +49 441 798 2844

S

Jan Schlamelcher

E-Mail: jan.schlamelcher(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-223, Room: E114

Tim Claudius Stratmann

E-Mail: Tim.Stratmann(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-431, Room: O88

v

Kai von Holdt

E-Mail: kai.vonholdt(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-728, Room: E106

W

Dr. rer. nat. Lars Weber

E-Mail: lars.weber(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-537, Room: D116

Sebastian Weiß

E-Mail: sebastian.weiss(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-476, Room: E65

Dr. rer. nat. Bertram Wortelen

E-Mail: Bertram.Wortelen(at)offis.de

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Projects

F

Future Laboratory Society and Work

Duration: 2020 - 2024

M

MIMO-Air

MIMO-Air Bodenstation und Datenlink

Duration: 2020 - 2024

O

OmniConnect

Multiple networking of everyday objects via 60GHz label

Duration: 2019 - 2022

P

PIRE II (HCD)

Vom Menschen lernen – Für Menschen gestalten

Duration: 2020 - 2023

S

SituWare

Erfassung des Fahrersituationsbewusstseins für adaptive kooperative Übergabestrategien beim hochautomatisierten Fahren

Duration: 2020 - 2023

STEP-UP

Smart technologies for standard-compliant process control and worker support in adhesive manufacturing processes

Duration: 2019 - 2021

Publications

2021

Multimodal Alarm Distribution System for Intensive Care Units

Vanessa Cobus; 2021

URL BIB

2020

A Generalized User Interface Concept to enable Restrospective System Analysis in Monitoring Systems

Viviane Herdel, Bertram Wortelen, Mathias Lanezki, Andreas Lüdtke; Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction; 19-24 July / 2020

BIB
A Life of Data: Characteristics and Challenges of Very Long Term Self-Tracking for Health and Wellness

Meyer, Jochen and Kay, Judy and Epstein, Daniel A. and Eslambolchilar, Parisa and Tang, Lie Ming; ACM Trans. Comput. Healthcare; March / 2020

PDF DOI BIB
A Real-Time Distributed Toolkit to Ease Children’s Exploration of IoT

Wallbaum, Torben and Ananthanarayan, Swamy and Matviienko, Andrii and Boll, Susanne; Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society; 2020

DOI BIB
Application of Activity Trackers among Nursing Home Residents—A Pilot and Feasibility Study on Physical Activity Behavior, Usage Behavior, Acceptance, Usability and Motivational Impact

Auerswald, Tina and Meyer, Jochen and von Holdt, Kai and Voelcker-Rehage, Claudia; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; 2020

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Augmented Berthing Support for Maritime Pilots Using a Shore-Based Sensor Infrastructure

Falk, Michael and Saager, Marcel and Harre, Marie-Christin and Feuerstack, Sebastian; HCI International 2020 – Late Breaking Posters; 2020

DOI BIB
aVRaid of Heights? - Exploring Integrated Non-Invasive Sensors For Stress Testing

Weiß, Sebastian and Withoeft, Ani and Heuten, Wilko; Proceedings of ICHI 2020; 2020

DOI BIB
Bedarfe für Virtual Reality Basierte Stress Trainings in der Pflege

Weiß, Sebastian and Cobus, Vanessa and Heuten, Wilko; 2. Clusterkonferenz; 2020

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Challenges for Integrating Humans into Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems

Sowe, Sulayman K. and Fränzle, Martin and Osterloh, Jan Patrick and Trende, Alexander and Weber, Lars and Lüdtke, Andreas; Lecture Notes in Computer Science - Software Engineering and Formal Methods - SEFM 2019 Collocated Workshops: CoSim-CPS, ASYDE, CIFMA, and FOCLASA, Oslo, Norway, September 16–20, 2019, Revised Selected Papers; 2020

DOI BIB
Corona-Warn-App: Erste Ergebnisse einer Onlineumfrage zur (Nicht-)Nutzung und Gebrauch

Meyer, Jochen and Fröhlich, Thomas and von Holdt, Kai; 2020

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