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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)
  • Deep Learning (DL)
  • Embedded System Design (ESD)
  • Human Machine Cooperation (HMC)
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Multi-Scale Multi-Rate Simulation (MS²)
  • 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

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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

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Elke Beck

E-Mail: elke.beck(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-126, Room: E106

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

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Vanessa Cobus

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

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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

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Jenny Inge Glitza

E-Mail: Jenny.Glitza(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-123, Room: E49

Uwe Grünefeld

E-Mail: uwe.gruenefeld(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-723, Room: O88

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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

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Marion Koelle

E-Mail: marion.koelle(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-138

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

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Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Lüdtke

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

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Andrii Matviienko

E-Mail: andrii.matviienko(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-731, Room: E125

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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Jan-Patrick Osterloh

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

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Max Pfingsthorn

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

Dr. Ing. Lars Prädel

E-Mail: lars.praedel(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-164, Room: O90

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Amin Raeiszadeh

E-Mail: amin.raeiszadeh(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-156, Room: U26

Prof. Dr. Rainer Röhrig

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

Erika Root

E-Mail: Erika.Root(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-293, Room: E118

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

Stefan Suck

E-Mail: stefan.suck(at)offis.de, Phone: +49 441 9722-534, Room: D116

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Kai von Holdt

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

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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, Phone: +49 441 9722-506, Room: D114

EN: Alle Personen aus dem Competence Cluster Human Machine Cooperation (HMC)

Projects

C

Cocomo

Cognitive Cooperation Support System based on Mobile and Wearable Devices (sorry - only available in german)

Duration: 2017 - 2020

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MeBeSafe

Measures for Behaving Safely in Traffic (sorry - only available in German)

Duration: 2017 - 2020

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OmniConnect

Multiple networking of everyday objects via 60GHz label

Duration: 2019 - 2022

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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

ChalkboARd: Exploring Augmented Reality for Public Displays

Gruenefeld, 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

DOI BIB
Challenges for Integrating Humans into Vehicular Cyber-Physical Systems

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

BIB
Classifying Sensitive Issues for Patients with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Wallbaum, Torben and Stratmann, Tim Claudius and Boll, Susanne; Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019; 2019

BIB
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

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Comparing Unimodal Lane Keeping Cues for Child Cyclists

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

DOI BIB
Dynamic Bayesian networks for driver-intention recognition based on the traffic situation

Eilers, Mark and Fathiazar, Elham and Suck, Stefan and Twumasi, Daniel; Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems: Towards High-Level Automated Driving; 09 / 2019

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Effects of Two Web-Based Interventions and Mediating Mechanisms on Stage of Change Regarding Physical Activity in Older Adults

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

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Effects of two web-based interventions promoting physical activity among older adults compared to a delayed intervention control group in Northwestern Germany: Results of the PROMOTE community-based intervention trial

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

URL DOI BIB
Engineering Optimized Control Panel Designs for Electric Driving

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

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Equity Impact Assessment of Interventions to Promote Physical Activity among Older Adults: A Logic Model Framework

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

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