Dominic Bläsing

Universität Greifswald · Institute of Psychology

BACKGROUND Digital interventions have been successfully used to address addictive behaviors, such as substance use, in adolescents and young adults. However, maintaining engagement remains a challenge for digital substance use interventions. There is limited evidence on the determinants of engagement with multiple behavioral interventions among voc...

This article examines the implementation, participation rates, and potential determinants of participation in the digital addiction prevention program “ready4life.” A two-arm cluster-randomized trial recruited German vocational students via class-based strategies. Intervention group received 16 weeks of in-app coaching; the control group received h...

BACKGROUND Vocational school students exhibit a high prevalence of addictive behaviors. Digital prevention programs targeting multiple addictive behaviors and promoting life skills are promising. Tailoring intervention content to participants’ preferences, such as allowing them to choose behavior modules, may increase engagement and efficacy. Howev...

Background: Vocational students have an increased risk to engage in health-risk behaviors compared to same-aged peers. To date, evidence-based digital prevention approaches that address multiple health-risk behaviors are rare. Method: The randomized-controlled trial (RCT) “Prevention of at-risk substance and Internet use disorders among vocational...

Osteoporosis is a common disease of old age. However, in many cases, it can be very well prevented and counteracted with physical activity, especially high-impact exercises. Wearables have the potential to provide data that can help with continuous monitoring of patients during therapy phases or preventive exercise programs in everyday life. This s...

Background Numerous wearables are used in a research context to record cardiac activity although their validity and usability has not been fully investigated. The objectives of this study is the cross-model comparison of data quality at different realistic use cases (cognitive and physical tasks). The recording quality is expressed by the ability t...

Background: The future of work in Germany is shaped by megatrends like globalization, automatization, digitization, and the demographic change. Furthermore, mass customization and the increasing usage of AI even in manual assembly offers new opportunities as well as it creates new challenges. Objective: The trend towards mass customization in tu...

Measuring mental workload at the workplace using (psycho-) physiological measurement techniques seems desirable but is difficult to implement. Conventional analysis techniques are designed to cover longer measurement durations, neglecting the demands of modern work places: high worker flexibility and constantly fluctuating mental workload. As an al...

Employees in mixed-model assembly perform much informational work by constantly making decisions about the part to be assembled, the tool to be used or the working method to be applied. The proportion of informational work in manual assembly is likely to increase, since more and more products are configured according to customer demands and additio...

The compatibility concept is widely used in psychology and ergonomics. It describes the fit between elements of a sociotechnical system which is a prerequisite to successfully cooperate towards a common goal. For at least three decades, cognitive compatibility is of increasing importance. It describes the fit of externally presented information, in...

Introduction Stroke is the leading neurological cause of adult long-term disability in Europe. Even though functional consequences directly related to neurological impairment are well studied, post-stroke trajectories of functional health according to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health are poorly understood. Part...

Zusammenfassung Im Verbundprojekt Montexas4.0 wird das Potenzial von informatorischen Assistenzsystemen in der manuellen Montage im Hinblick auf eine Steigerung der betrieblichen Produktivität durch eine Reduzierung der mentalen Beanspruchung untersucht. Hintergrund dieses Ansatzes bildet die zunehmende Komplexität von Montageprozessen infolge wach...

(1) Background: Cognitive aspects and complexity in modern manual mixed model assembly are increasing. To reduce mental workload (MWL), informational assistance systems are introduced. The influence of complexity and used assistance system on MWL should be investigated to further improve the implementation of such assistance systems. (2) Methods: U...

Die zunehmende Komplexität von manuellen Montageprozessen wirft in Unternehmen die Frage auf, wie die damit verbundenen Anforderungen an die Verarbeitung größerer Informationsmengen und die damit einhergehenden Zuwächse an kognitiven Beanspruchungen infolge zunehmender Unsicherheit seitens der Beschäftigten zu bewältigen sind. Eine Antwort hierauf...

Mass customization implies an increase of product variants, complexity, and information processing of operators. Generally it is supposed that this leads to an increase of mental workload. Using a real-work-like laboratory setting, subjects should complete tasks of increasing complexity while mental workload is obtained using various parameters (su...

Mit steigender Komplexität und Zunahme des Informationsflusses in der manuellen Montage verändert sich auch die mentale Beanspruchung der Beschäftigten. Wo vorher physische Prozesse wie Lastenhandhabung und Körperhaltung im Fokus standen, rücken nun informatorische und mentale Prozesse in den Mittelpunkt der Beanspruchungsforschung. Grundlage hierf...

Product variety and short product life cycles are characteristic features of modern assembly systems. When variety gets very high, assembly processes usually become very complex, leading to time losses, human errors, and other negative impacts of system performance. In order to prevent such performance declines different informational assistance sy...

More and more complex products are being fitted in small batches in manual assembly. Because of this, more information needs to be collected from employees and implemented in appropriate actions. At the same time, the informational design of assembly systems often shows deficits in operational practice. Manual assembly processes can be made more ec...

In order to manage increasing complexity so called cognitive assistance systems are integrated into assembly systems. On the basis of real-time measurement and analysis of physiological signals, these assistance systems help to coordinate efficient behavior and to prevent states of long lasting detrimental workload and strain. With measurement tech...

Zusammenfassung Die Komplexität in der manuellen Montage steigt. In der sog. Mehrprodukt- oder Variantenmontage hat der Beschäftigte permanent zwischen verschiedenen Alternativen auszuwählen. Dies betrifft z. B. zu montierende Teile, Werkzeuge, Fügeverfahren oder Hilfsmittel, die in ganz unterschiedlichen Kombinationen zu verwenden sind. Der Montag...

Das Management des betrieblichen Wissens ist eine Herausforderung, der sich Unternehmen in Zeiten von „Wissensgesellschaft“ und „Enterprise 2.0“ zunehmend stellen müssen. Bekräftigt wird dies durch die kürzlich erfolgte Änderung der ISO Norm 9001 für das Qualitätsmanagement, welche explizit den systematischen Umgang mit dem betrieblichen Wissen for...

Digitalisierung, digitale Assistenzsysteme und Robotik machen auch vor dem Gesundheitsbereich nicht Halt. Pflegekräfte sollen im Bereich schwerer körperlicher und logistischer Arbeit durch Serviceroboter entlastet werden, gleichzeitig soll Patientinnen und Patienten Möglichkeit geboten werden, im Servicesegment den Genesungsprozess selbstbestimmt z...

Die stationäre Pflegebranche ist vom demografischen Wandel besonders betroffen – sowohl in der Altenpflege als auch im Krankenhaus. Um dem drohenden Pflegenotstand zu begegnen, sind neue Lösungen gefragt, die das Pflegepersonal in ihrem Arbeitsalltag unterstützen und entlasten. Die Produktvision des „intelligenten Pflegewagens“ hat die Aufgabe, ben...

Zusammenfassung Zur Erfassung physischer und psychischer Beanspruchungen im Labor wie auch im Arbeitskontext werden vermehrt objektive Messverfahren ergänzend zu erprobten subjektiven Verfahren eingesetzt. Grund hierfür sind u. a. kleiner werdende Sensoren mit immer mehr Leistungskapazität, die eine Messung objektiver Vitalparameter vereinfachen. I...

Die Leistungsfähigkeit von Arbeitsgruppen hängt stark von der Diversität der Gruppenmitglieder ab. Dabei zeigt sich in der Forschung, dass das Konzept der Diversität uneindeutig ist und folglich in großer Bedeutungsvielfalt verwendet wird. Angelehnt an die Tradition der Input-Process-Output-Modelle wird die Diversität als ein holistisches Merkmal v...