At the moment we are looking for an research assistant. Further information you can find in the document.

Please send your application with the reference number and the usual documents by email to Prof. Dr. Nele Rußwinkel (nele.russwinkel@tu-berlin.de).

Nele Russwinkel was invited by the University of Oldenburg to give a lecture on "Dynamic cognitive systems approaches for cooperative human-technology interaction" on December 13, 2019.

Nele Russwinkel was invited by the University of Paderborn to give a lecture on "Cognitive Systems for Cooperative Human-Technology Interaction" on November 27, 2019.

Felix Kretschmer on the 25.11.20

• Soziale Interaktion in Virtual Reality?! - 15 Jahre ,Social Inhibition of Return' und dessen neuerliche Untersuchung in VR

Dr. Michael Oehl (DLR) on the 02.12.20

• Was tut das Auto? Gestaltung internaler und externaler Mensch-Maschine-Schnittstellen hochautomatisierter Fahrzeuge zur Reduktion von Unsicherheit in der Interaktion mit Nutzenden sowie anderen Verkehrsteilnehmenden

Dr. Chris Myers (Cognitive Models Core Research Area Lead at Air Force Research Laboratory) in the 06.01.21

• Toward a Process Model for Situation Representations w/in a Synthetic Teammate

Prof. Dr. Jochem Rieger (Universität Oldenburg) on the 13.01.21

• Brain Mechanisms of Cognition in Realistic Tasks

Linda Heimisch on the 27.01.21

• Bringing together Cognitive Models and EEG through Hidden Semi-Markov Models - An Analysis of Processing Stages in a Mental Rotation Task

Sebastian Wiese on the 03.02.21

• The Active Self

Oliver Klaproth on the 10.02.21

• A cognitive model for anticipation and sensemaking of pilot actions

Sandra Epple on the 17.02.21

• Prädiktoren für fahrerinitiierte Eingriffe in automatisierte Ausweichmanöver

Always 4 pm ct you can use this Link to parcitipate. 

An overview for all colloquiums of the departmens Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics and Cognitive Modeling in dynamic Human-Machine Systems you can find here.

• Prof. Dr. Dieter Wallach in the colloquium

  With an engaging lecture on the 15th of January 2020 Prof. Dr. Dieter Wallach gave an insight into the application-oriented use of cognitive modeling.

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Beckerle in the colloquium

  During an interesting talk on Human Robot Interaction Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Beckerle presented his work on the 18th of December 2019 in the KKE Colloquium.

Nele Russwinkel and Kai Preuss held their virtual talk Workload-over-time modeling in a cognitive architecture on July 29th, 2020 during the workshop "Mental Effort: One Construct, Many Faces?" as part of CogSci 2020 (Workshop website | Recorded talk).

On July 25th, 2020, Nele Russwinkel gave a presentation entitled Anticipating the Individual User at the 27th annual ACT-R Workshop at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling.

Nele Russwinkel was at the IHSI 2020 in Modena (3rd International Conference on Intelligent Human Systems Integration: Integrating People and Intelligent Systems) from 19th to 21st February 2020 with two contributions:

• Category Learning as a Use Case for Anticipating Individual Human Decision Making by Intelligent Systems. (Marcel Lommerzheim, Sabine Prezenski, Nele Russwinkel, André Brechmann) 
• Towards Cognitive Assistance and Teaming in Aviation by Inferring Pilot's Mental State. (Nele Russwinkel, Christoph Vernaleken, Oliver Klaproth)

From July 19th to 22nd, Nele Russwinkel, Oliver Klaproth, Kai Preuss, Marlene Scharfe and Sebastian Wiese visited the ICCM 2019 in Montreal, Canada. Afterwards Nele Russwinkel, Kai Preuss and Marlene Scharfe took part in the CogSci 2019, also in Montreal.

Kai Preuss takes part in the Cognitive Modeling Spring School on 8.-12. April 2019 in Groningen.

From 28th to 29th March 2019 Nele Russwinkel is invited to the Ladenburger Diskurs of the Daimler und Benz Stiftung on the topic of Human-Robot-Collaboration (Mensch-Roboter-Kollaboration, MRK) with a talk titled Antizipierende, interaktiv Lernende autonome Agenten (Anticipating, Interactively Learning Autonomous Agents)

On 24th March 2019 Nele Russwinkel is invited to the Dagstuhl Seminar 19132: Users and automated driving systems: How will we interact with tomorrow's vehicles?

On 30th January 2019 Nele Russwinkel is invited to a talk at the "Gießener Abendgespräche Kognition und Gehirn" at University of Giessen.

From 21th - 23th November 2018, Alexander Lotz, Marlene Scharfe, Alexandra Weidemann und Nele Russwinkel were at the 2nd Winter School - Human Factors Aspects of Cooperative Systems Design, HUFACO 2018 with their contribution "Anticipating the user for cooperative assistance systems". Part of the project Neuroadaptive Cognitive Modeling (Kroll, L. R., Klaproth, O., Vernaleken, V., Wetzel, I., Gaertner J., Russwinkel, N., & Zander T.O. (2018). Towards a Neuroadaptive Cockpit: First Results. 3rd International Mobile Brain/Body Imaging Conference. Berlin Germany.).

Interview by Sabine for the ZEWK Praxis Blog (german) about the E-Learning Course Human Factors Engineering, November 2018.

On October 12th 2018 Martin Krabbe and Kenneth zur Kammer held a workshop at the Human Factors Summer School at TU Berlin and presented the AVALANCHE project.

9th Oktober 2018 Sabine Prezenski gives a talk at the ISSW 2018 in Innsbruck, Austria.

"Designing a wearable persuasive avalanche warning system" by Sabine Prezenski, Nele Rußwinkel and Khin Than Win

18th September 2018 Sabine Prezenski gives a talk at the Birthday Symposium of Dietrich Dörner "Complex Problem Solving" at the DGPS in Frankfurt.

24th August 2018 Sabine Prezenski gives a talk to present the joint work of Ziying Zhang and Nele Russwinkel at the HLAI/BICA 2018 in Praque.

"Modeling Individual Strategies in Dynamic Decision-making with ACT-R: A Task Toward Decision-making Assistance in HCI" by Ziying Zhang, Nele Russwinkel and Sabine Prezenski

21st-24th July 2018 we present our current work at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2018) in Madison, United States:

• ACT-Droid Meets ACT-Touch: Modelling Differences in Swiping Behavior with Real Apps
  von Nele Russwinkel, Sabine Prezenski, Lisa-Madeleine Dörr and Frank Tamborello
• Comparing Models of Visual Search in Heterogeneous Search Fields
  von Stefan Lindner, Lennart Arlt and Nele Russwinkel

5th July 2018 Nele Russwinkel is invited to give talk on "Kognitive Modellierung für mehr Verständnis zwischen Mensch und Technik" in the context of the Kognitionswissenschaftliches Kolloquiums at the University Tübingen.

27th April 2018 Nele Russwinkel gave a keynote "Verständliche Mensch-Technik-Interaktion" at the Abschlussveranstaltung der Fördermaßnahme „Adaptive, lernende Systeme“ des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (Referat 524, Mensch-Technik-Interaktion; Demografischer Wandel).

11th January 2018 Nele Russwinkel gave a talk on "Towards Cognition Centered Design" at the Colloquium Cognitive Systems at the University Ulm, Germany.

8th November 2017 Sabine Prezenski gave a talk at the Centre for Persuasive Technology and Society Workshop at the University of Wollongong, Australia.

22nd-25th July 2017 presented Nele Russwinkel, Sabine Prezenski, Stefan Lindner and Oliver Klaproth their current work at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2017) in Warwick, England:

• Implementing Mental Model Updating in ACT-R
• Modeling of Visual Search and Influence of Item Similarity
• Conceptual Approach to Model the Effects of Feedback on Mental Model Activation

We will present our work at VISIGRAPP/HUCAPP 2017 in Porto. On February the 27th Sabine Prezenski will give a talk about "Predictive Cognitive Modelling of Applications". This is a joint project of Sabine, Dominik and Nele.

9th February 2017 at 6 pm we are participating in the Hybrid Talks. Nele Russwinkel will present: "How our Actions Influence the Perception of Time; Predictions about the Perception of Time when Using Technological Devices". An audio record of the presentation (in German) is available here.
Location: Hybrid Lab, TU Berlin, Villa Bell, Marchstraße 8, 10587 Berlin

The call for the ICCM 2017 in Warwick, UK is online!

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In 2016 we present our research on various occations:

• 16th September 2016 Nele Russwinkel gives a lecture on "Human Computer Interaktion" at the Science Notes dealing with "Der erweiterte Mensch" at Astra Berlin.

• 7th-10th August 2016 Nele Russwinkel and Sabine Prezenski will participate at the ACT-R Post-Graduate Summer School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.  Nele Russwinkel will give a talk on Spatial Module and Mental Rotation.

• 3rd-6th August 2016 Nele Russwinkel, Sabine Prezenski and Stefan Lindner will present their latest work at the International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM) in University Park, Pennsylvania.

• 15th April 2016 Prof. Nele Rußwinkel is invited to the 2nd Workshop Mensch Maschine Interaktion in der Chirurgie, at the Leibniz Universität, Hannover.

• 14th-16th March 2016 Nele Rußwinkel is invited as a Keynote for the 5th Workshop Kognitive Systeme: Mensch, Teams, Systeme und Automaten - Verstehen, Beschreiben und Gestalten kognitiver technischer Systeme at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Furthermore, Alexander Lotz will present current research by the topic Role of Familiarity in Spatial Competence.

In 2015 we present our research on various occations:

• From 7th-9th October 2015 we are introducing our division at the 11th Berliner Werkstatt Mensch-Machine-Systeme (BWMMS), Berlin, Germany. Our division takes part in the organization of the BWMMS.

• In April 2015 our division took part in the ICCM in Groningen.

• At January 29th, 2015 Nele Rußwinkel introduces our chair within the colloquium of the study course "Kognitionswissenschaft" at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Besides of broaching the issue of researching within applied human-machine contexts, she will deliver insight into some of our current research projects.