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.
Persons
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Dr. Ing.
Larbi Abdenebaoui
E-Mail: larbi.abdenebaoui(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-730, Room: E126
Pedro Fernando Arizpe Gomez
E-Mail: PedroFernando.ArizpeGomez(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-741, Room: E66
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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
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Marco Eichelberg
E-Mail: marco.eichelberg(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-147, Room: E46
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Andreas Lüdtke
E-Mail: andreas.luedtke(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-530, Room: D106
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Dr.-Ing.
Frerk Müller-von Aschwege
E-Mail: Frerk.Mueller-von.Aschwege(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-146, Room: E50
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Bertram Wortelen
E-Mail: Bertram.Wortelen(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-506, Room: D114
Projects
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Cocomo
Cognitive Cooperation Support System based on Mobile and Wearable Devices (sorry - only available in german)
Duration: 2017 - 2020M
MeBeSafe
Measures for Behaving Safely in Traffic (sorry - only available in German)
Duration: 2017 - 2020O
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SMILE
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
STEP-UP
Smart technologies for standard-compliant process control and worker support in adhesive manufacturing processes
Duration: 2019 - 2021
Publications
2019
Comparing Techniques for Visualizing Moving Out-of-View Objects in Head-mounted Virtual Reality
Uwe Gruenefeld, Ilja Koethe, Daniel Lange, Sebastian Weiss, Wilko Heuten; 26th IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEE VR); 03 / 2019
Semi-automatic Aggregation of Multiple Models of Visual Attention for Model-based User Interface Evaluation
Dennis Knoop and Bertram Wortelen and Marcus Behrendt; Proceedings of 21st Intern. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction; 2019
To Beep or Not to Beep? Evaluating Modalities for Multimodal ICU Alarms
Cobus, Vanessa and Heuten, Wilko; Multimodal Technologies and Interaction; Special Issue: Multimodal Medical Alarms; 2019
2018
(Un)Acceptable!?!: Re-thinking the Social Acceptability of Emerging Technologies
Marion Koelle and Susanne Boll and Thomas Olsson and Julie Williamson and Halley Profita and Shaun K. Kane and Robb Mitchell; Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018, Montreal, QC, Canada, April 21-26, 2018; 2018
ActiStairs: Design and Acceptance of a Technology-Based Intervention to Advocate Stair-Climbing in Public Spaces
Meyer, Jochen and Beck, Elke and von Holdt, Kai and Gansefort, Dirk and Brand, Tilman and Zeeb, Hajo and Boll, Susanne; Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multimedia for Personal Health and Health Care; 2018
ActiThings Toolkit - Towards Supporting Older Adults' Adherence to Home-based Physical Exercise Programs by Providing Notifications in Opportune Moments
Beck, Elke and von Holdt, Kai and Meyer, Jochen; Proceedings of the 11th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF,; 2018
Augmenting Bicycles and Helmets with Multimodal Warnings for Children
Matviienko, Andrii and Ananthanarayan, Swamy and Borojeni, Shadan Sadeghian and Feld, Yannick and Heuten, Wilko and Boll, Susanne; Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services; 2018
Beyond LED Status Lights - Design Requirements of Privacy Notices for Body-worn Cameras
Marion Koelle and Katrin Wolf and Susanne Boll; Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI 2018, Stockholm, Sweden, March 18-21, 2018; 2018
Defining Adherence: Making Sense of Physical Activity Tracker Data
Tang, Lie Ming and Meyer, Jochen and Epstein, Daniel A and Bragg, Kevin and Engelen, Lina and Bauman, Adrian and Kay, Judy; Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.; 2018
Demo: Vibrotactile Alarm Display for Critical Care
Cobus, Vanessa and Ehrhardt, Bastian and Boll, Susanne and Heuten, Wilko; Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays; 2018
