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.
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Cognitive Cooperation Support System based on Mobile and Wearable Devices (sorry - only available in german)
Duration: 2017 - 2020
Measures for Behaving Safely in Traffic (sorry - only available in German)
Duration: 2017 - 2020
Smart Environments as a context of motivating learning opportunities for girls for a growing proportion of female computer scientists by involving teachers and parents
Duration: 2017 - 2020
Smart technologies for standard-compliant process control and worker support in adhesive manufacturing processes
Duration: 2019 - 2021Gruenefeld, Uwe and Wolff, Torge and Diekmann, Niklas and Koelle, Marion and Heuten, Wilko; Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays; 06 / 2019
Sulayman K. Sowe and Martin Fränzle and Jan-Patrick Osterloh and Alexander Trende and Lars Weber and Andreas Lüdtke; Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Formal Co-Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems (CoSim-CPS-19); 2019
Wallbaum, Torben and Stratmann, Tim Claudius and Boll, Susanne; Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019; 2019
Uwe Gruenefeld, Ilja Koethe, Daniel Lange, Sebastian Weiss, Wilko Heuten; 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR); 03 / 2019
Matviienko, Andrii and Ananthanarayan, Swamy and Brewster, Stephen and Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne; Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia; 2019
Eilers, Mark and Fathiazar, Elham and Suck, Stefan and Twumasi, Daniel; Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems: Towards High-Level Automated Driving; 09 / 2019
Ratz, Tiara and Lippke, Sonia and Muellmann, Saskia and Peters, Manuela and Pischke, Claudia R and Meyer, Jochen and Bragina, Inna and Voelcker-Rehage, Claudia; Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being; 2019
Muellmann, Saskia and Buck, Christoph and Voelcker-Rehage, Claudia and Bragina, Inna and Lippke, Sonia and Meyer, Jochen and Peters, Manuela and Pischke, Claudia R; Preventive Medicine Reports; 2019
Bertram Wortelen, Sebastian Feuerstack, Marie-Christin Harre, Sergen Sentürk, Fang You, Jianmin Wang; Proceedings of 10th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications; 23-25 October / 2019
Lehne, Gesa and Voelcker-Rehage, Claudia and Meyer, Jochen and Bammann, Karin and Gansefort, Dirk and Brüchert, Tanja and Bolte, Gabriele; International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health; 2019