Development of Methods, Techniques, and Tools for

• Multimodal Human-Computer Interfaces for Automotive Usage
• Driver State Inference (Availability and Intention)
• Dynamic Cooperative System Adaption

• D3CoS - Designing Dynamic Distributed Cooperative human-machine Systems

• Zimmermann, Markus; Bengler, Klaus (2012): Bereichsübergreifende Methoden, Techniken und Tools für kooperative Mensch-Maschine-Systeme aus automobiler Multiagentensicht. In: Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft (Hg.): Gestaltung nachhaltiger Arbeitssysteme. 58. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft. 58. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft. Kassel, 22.-24.02.2012. Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft. Dortmund: GfA Press, S. 279–282.
• Zimmermann, Markus; Bortot, Dino; Bengler, Klaus (2012): Allgemeine Interaktionsprinzipien für kooperative Mensch-Maschine-Systeme. In: Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft (Hg.): Gestaltung nachhaltiger Arbeitssysteme. 58. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft. 58. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft. Kassel, 22.-24.02.2012. Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft. Dortmund: GfA Press, S. 469–472.

• Diploma Thesis Usability Requirements for a Mobile Fitness Application. 1st July 2011. Elderly people will constitute a lion’s share of the future population. To enhance their agility and thereby the social integration when advanced in years, a healthy lifestyle preferably has to be started at younger days. In order to achieve this, sup-port in health prevention (subject to fitness, exercise and nutrition) must be given as early as possible. The advent of mobile computing platforms enables medical, healthcare and fitness applications as ubiquitous companions. Such mobile comput-er assistance permits novel opportunities, but needs to take usability aspects into careful consideration. A prototype of a fitness application (FitApp), whose main functionality is the personal analysis of exercise and nutrition, has been developed for the Apple iPhone in the context of the project CrossGeneration. This application now has to be evaluat-ed and advanced. The goal of this thesis is to work out the usability requirements for a health & fitness application running on a mobile platform in the context of an iterative devel-opment process containing the discipline of requirements engineering. This re-quirements research is done in several steps. The first step is a baseline mainly re-vising the prototype; the second step is an analysis. The research is done qualitative-ly by expert interviews as well as by a focus group. Quantitatively a user survey fol-lows. Personae (modelling users) and scenarios (modelling requirements) finally conclude the requirement analysis. This step defines desk worker’s motivations and some of their expectations towards a mobile fitness application. This thesis concludes with some suggestions for a concrete transformation of those requirements into actual system design. This is done in the way of transferring non-functional requirements like adaptability, perceivability, or simplification. Functional requirements like a social feature including appointments or the need for observation are integrated furthermore. These findings show the way for being as-signed to the pre-existing prototype and allow a future evaluation of the applica-tion’s acceptance and everyday usability for different age and user groups.
• Student Research Project Touch Sensing with Time Domain Reflectometry. 1st July 2010. The advancing miniaturisation of devices entails the consequence, that any shaped prototypes get smaller and smaller while the claim of touch sensing is indispensable. A new approach for this purpose is touch sensing with Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR). By covering any shaped surfaces with a pair of conductors (e.g. wrapping with cable or coating with conducting paths), touches can be recognized through measuring with TDR. This present student research project firstly deals with the basics of TDR and afterwards goes into details for digitalisation and signal processing of a Tektronix 1502 TDR analyser’s signals. The work is closing with the conception of prototypes of applications in the two dimensional space and the demonstration of their feasibility. Based on the rapid development time and the flexibility in adaption, though accompanied by the high acquisition cost of the TDR analyser, the technology is outstandingly suited for the development of prototypes.
• Advanced Seminar Communication Science Risiko- und Krisen-PR im Web 2.0 – Fallbeschreibungen. 28th September 2010.
• Advanced Seminar Prototyping in Technical Report LMU-MI-2010-1. February 2010.