Our Human Factors Team
Peter Moertl
HF Team Lead – Human Systems Integration
Paolo Pretto
Principal Scientist – Human Perception & Interface
Nikolai Ebinger
Human Factors Engineer – Trust & Acceptance
Manuela Prior
Scientist – Research Practice
Mateo Jukic
Human Factors Engineer – Automation & Trust
Investigation: Human in Context
We apply state-of-the-art methods to understand the human performance and cognitive processes within their socio-cultural context and structure this knowledge for engineering.
We administer observational studies within their natural context, experimental studies in controlled environments, develop surveys, and administer interviews.
We organize market surveys and literature search to bring together the state-of-the-art in technical applications and science.
Conception: Human in Center
Within technical projects, we support requirement analyses by bringing human factors and usability considerations to the table, moderate the development of user scenarios, and perform stakeholder analyses.
We develop digital mock-ups to conceptualize user interactions for quick or detailed evaluations and iterate the designs in user studies.
We also perform task analyses to make the implicit structure of tasks explicit and help stakeholder understand the involved knowledge task execution.
Integration: Human Model
We translate behavioral data that we collect in user studies into virtual models that allow us to integrate human constraints and capabilities in virtual tool chains that are becoming development standards for human systems integration.
For this purpose we derive the cognitive models that underlie human performance based on psychological principles and theories and make them executable within numeric simulations.
Evaluation: Human in the Loop
We measure humans interacting with technical systems in their operational environments. For this we use our instrumented driving simulators and demonstrator vehicles to collect behavioral but also psycho-physiological measurements such as eye- and gaze-tracking and galvanic skin response.
We develop and administer tailored surveys and interviews and design and execute experimental and observational studies and translate findings for practical system design decisions.
Projects