Continuous improvement of the working environment is a key success factor for securing the workforce in agriculture. The aim of the project is therefore to contribute to an efficient and effective working environment and to improve the organization of work both economically and socially. To this end, the Driver's Cab 4.0 project is researching a stress-adaptive human-machine interface for agricultural machinery and implementing it in the form of a demonstrator. A central question is how the current stress level of the person at the wheel can be validly detected and adequately responded to. The aim is to enable the processing of additional tasks in low-stress situations and to avoid excessive demands in high-stress situations by reducing information. The completion of additional tasks, for example, offers the opportunity to carry out light office tasks in the driver's cab and thus shorten the working day. For the ifab, the focus of the project is on the analysis of requirements in terms of occupational psychology and research into a valid measurement of mental stress.

The Driver's Cab 4.0 research project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the "Agricultural Systems of the Future" program and supervised by Project Management Jülich (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)