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100 visitors attended the "House of Commons Debate" at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe on the topic of autonomous driving "Between Man and Machine".

Further information on the event can be found under the following link

On July 18, 2019, the 6th plenary meeting of the priority program "Cooperative Interacting Automobiles", which is funded by the German Research Foundation, took place in Tübingen. The ifab is participating with the project "Complexity in cooperative traffic situations: Discrete-event modeling in automated vehicle guidance".

Spring 2019 saw the official launch of the AgiProbot project - an agile production system using mobile, learning robots with multi-sensor technology for uncertain product specifications - which is being funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation with three million euros until February 2024. Under the leadership of the Institute of Production Engineering (wbk), a total of nine chairs from three different faculties at KIT are participating in the research project, including the Institute of Human Factors and Industrial Organization (ifab). More information

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February 14, 2019 saw the official launch of the joint project ProBot, which aims to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in tapping into the potential of innovative collaborative robots (known as CoBots). CoBots are robots that can work directly with humans "in a team" without a safety fence in order to optimally support them in their work processes. More information

As part of the research project funded by the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA), ifab investigated how video displays and new technologies can be used in control rooms and how their use affects the mental stress of users. Barbara Deml and Fabian Ries gave the audience an insight into the work carried out as part of the project, as well as the results obtained and design recommendations derived, in a presentation on 7 February 2019 as part of the workshop organized by the BAuA in Dortmund. The published research report provides a comprehensive overview of the project, which can be accessed here.

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How can a university impart content at a high level and actively shape the society of tomorrow? What does the realization of an Industry 4.0 look like in which technologies empower people and do not replace them? What are the opportunities and risks of designing future human-machine systems? These questions were explored by Julia Staiger Engel (University of Education) in her presentation of "Service Learning", Prof. Dr.-Ing. Barbara Deml (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) in her contribution on the design of human-machine interaction and Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Haas and Dr. Maja Jeretin-Kopf (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences) in their examination of the human factor in the Industry 4.0 landscape.

The Science Tuesday of the EFFEKTE series offers a varied program of lectures, panel discussions and hands-on activities from the various scientific institutions in Karlsruhe. The focus is on innovations, further developments and trends that originate in Karlsruhe and are developed in local research institutions. Researchers from Karlsruhe explain phenomena that concern us in an understandable and entertaining way.

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Federal Research Minister Anja Karliczek, Prof. Antje Boetius and Prof. Barbara Deml opened the "Working Worlds of the Future" exhibition on the MS Wissenschaft at a press conference. The exhibition "Working Worlds of the Future" can be seen on board the ship during the Science Year 2018.

Further information:

https://ms-wissenschaft.de/

On February 19, 2018, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research officially opened the new Year of Science in Berlin under the theme Working Worlds of the Future, with the aim of arousing greater public interest in science and current research topics.

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Barbara Köhler has successfully passed her doctoral examination. The ifab congratulates her warmly!

The title of her dissertation is:

"Effects of the perception of marking constellations on driving behavior in work zones on federal highways"

Prof. Deml was honored with a teaching award at the New Year's reception of the HECTOR School of Engineering and Management. The award went to the course "Human Factors Engineering" in the "Green Mobility Engineering" degree program. The lecture took first place. We are very happy about this award!

The fourth ifab alumni reunion took place on June 18, 2016. Current and former ifab employees and students took the opportunity to exchange professional and personal ideas in a relaxed atmosphere.

On June 17, 2016, the ifab hosted the 185th REFA working group "Industrial Engineering". In addition to a presentation on "Ergonomic work design for demographic change", the participants were given an insight into the ifab's research activities as part of a laboratory tour.

The Society for Ergonomics has awarded the "Best Paper Award" from all articles published in the Journal of Ergonomics in 2015 in the "Science" section to Dr. Stefan Graichen for his article "Biomechanical Analysis of Manual Assembly Tasks", written jointly with Junior Professor Thorsten Stein, B.Sc. Christopher Neff, Marian Hoffmann and Prof. Barbara Deml.

The prize was awarded to Dr. Graichen on the occasion of the GfA Spring Conference in Aachen. Congratulations!

The book "Advances in Ergonomic Design of Systems, Products and Processes" summarizes the best contributions to the spring congress of the Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft (GfA) 2015 organized by ifab. 160 research papers and 30 poster contributions were presented at the congress.

The book provides a good overview of the current research landscape in the field of ergonomics and shows how various disciplines and their different research methods contribute to the study of human work.

Link to the Springer publishing house

Congratulations to Stefan Graichen! He has successfully passed his doctoral examination.

The title of his dissertation is:

"Biomechanical consideration of manual assembly processes - contribution to the evaluation of dynamic forms of work within the gripping space"

On 8 July 2015, the Förderverein für das Institut für Arbeitswissenschaft und Betriebsorganisation e. V. (Association for the Promotion of the Institute of Ergonomics and Industrial Organization) hosted a lecture by Dipl.-Ing. Jürgen Dörich (Südwestmetall). Under the title "What are we missing in Germany? Best practice of excellent companies in Asia", the participants were given interesting insights into the organization of companies in China and Japan. A subsequent snack provided an opportunity for in-depth discussions and talks.

From February 25 to 27, 2015, ifab hosted the 61st Spring Congress of the Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft in Karlsruhe and welcomed over 300 guests to KIT.

Further information can be found at www.gfa2015.de.

Mr. Stefan Waßmann has successfully passed his doctoral examination. The ifab congratulates him warmly!

The title of his dissertation is:

"Innovative ability in demographic change - development and validation of the NovaDemo assessment tool for recording the innovative ability of individuals and work groups"

Former employees, lecturers and current ifab employees met in and around building 40.29 for this year's late summer party. There was an opportunity to visit the driving simulator and the ifab laboratory.

Afterwards, there was a chance to talk about old and new ifab times while enjoying the wonderful weather and good food and drink.

Congratulations to Ms. Barby! She has successfully passed her doctoral examination.

The title of her dissertation is:

"Detection and regulation of activation-dependent visual constriction in drivers - an empirical research study on the assessment of driver state" successfully passed.

On 16.07.14, the ifab team took part in the official KIT human foosball championship for the first time at the KIT summer party. Despite great support from young and old, it was unfortunately not enough to win the title this time. Next year, however, the team will be back with full commitment!

The Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft e.V. (Society for Ergonomics) awarded ifab's senior engineer, Dr.-Ing. Patricia Stock, the GfA poster prize at the 60th Spring Congress in Munich from March 12 to 14, 2014 for the poster entitled "Recommendations for the design of company and employee-friendly working hours", which she wrote together with her co-authors Michael Leupold, Daniel Schmidt and Prof. Dr.-Ing.

The former ifab employee Mr. Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Marcel Becker successfully passes his doctoral examination. The ifab congratulates him warmly!

The title of his dissertation is:

"Performance potential of a manufacturing system under the aspect of long-term existing workforce structures"

Alumni meeting. The topic of the scientific part of the alumni meeting on November 9, 2013 was demographic change this year. The alumni were given the opportunity to find out about the latest research on this topic at KIT in the Science Café.

The Science Café consisted of three stations, which were located in the Audimax and the HOC. The alumni were divided into groups of around 30 participants and each group then went through all the stations.

This year, Dr. Stock had the opportunity to report on one of ifab's areas of work. She gave a presentation entitled "Working time organization in demographic change", which was received with great interest by the alumni. The presentation was followed by a lively discussion.

The event was a great opportunity for the ifab to present an excerpt from its current research areas and to establish contacts with KIT alumni.