
Jens Krzywinski- Prof. Dr.-Ing.
- Professor (Full) at TU Dresden
Jens Krzywinski
- Prof. Dr.-Ing.
- Professor (Full) at TU Dresden
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Introduction
The research of Jens Krzywinski and his team is at the intersection of engineering design and industrial design, focusing on user experience and industrial products. Based on the users’ experiencing as well as needs of all stakeholders, enterprise and market we conduct research and development of products, systems and services that are technologically, ergonomically and aesthetically convincing in the professional scenarios of tomorrow and beyond.
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January 2021 - present
April 2019 - December 2020
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Publications (98)
As we move towards a sustainable future, designing technology plays a key role. Over the last few decades, the role of design has been steadily expanding from a purely economic benefit for products to a discipline that contributes to positive change for humanity. While the recognition of this responsibility is growing, there is a knowledge gap for...
BACKGROUND
Effective treatment in physiotherapy requires hands-on therapy with therapists as well as hands-off treatment like home exercises. To compensate the lack of feedback for home exercising, various technical approaches are studied and developed. Well studied feedback strategies for this use case are missing, especially for tactile feedback....
Background
Tissue handling is a crucial skill for surgeons and is challenging to learn. The aim of this study was to develop laparoscopic instruments with different integrated tactile vibration feedback by varying different tactile modalities and assess its effect on tissue handling skills.
Methods
Standard laparoscopic instruments were equipped w...
Demonstrators are out-of-the-lab artefacts that embody current technological research. Due to their interactive, exhibit-like nature, demonstrators have great potential to engage the public with future technologies. While demonstrators are already used for this purpose in practice, there is a gap regarding how to measure demonstrator experience and...
Low back pain patients often have deficits in trunk stability. For this reason, many patients receive physiotherapy treatment, which represents an enormous socio-economic burden. Training at home could reduce these costs. The problem here is the lack of correction of the exercise execution. Therefore, this feasibility study investigates the applica...
The extensive natural science and engineering collections as well as the important art collection of TU Dresden document almost 200 years of history of knowledge transfer and generation and are important testimonies to our university identity. Exhibits from the early 19th century connect the history of scientific knowledge with the research of our...
Industrial design at TUD Dresden University of Technology prioritizes human needs and experiencing in designing complex novel systems for desirable futures. For this purpose, it integrates human-centred design, engineering and social sciences, with a tradition going back to the 1950s. The Industrial Design Collection is comparatively young. It is a...
The way in which design proposals are presented strongly influences the evaluation of the designs themselves. Experienced designers know how to deal with these effects. However, the understanding of the parameters of the design representations and their impact on the design evaluations remained vague. In this research, drawing parameters have been...
Der Beitrag argumentiert für eine Designwissenschaft, die lebensweltlich verankert einen Beitrag zur Disziplin und damit den übergeordneten Zielen des Designs leistet. Nach unserer Auffassung muss sie dafür nach etablierten Standards international und auch über die Disziplin hinaus anschlussfähig sein. Eine solche Designwissenschaft ist eine den So...
Patients with low back pain often have deficits in trunk stability. For this reason, many patients receive physiotherapy treatment, which represents an enormous socio-economic burden. Training at home could reduce these costs. The prob-lem here is the lack of correction of the exercise execution. This feasibility study therefore investigates the ap...
The importance of inter- and transdisciplinary research for addressing today’s complex challenges has been increasingly recognised. This requires new forms of communication and interaction between researchers from different disciplines and nonacademic stakeholders. Demonstrators constitute a crucial communication tool in technology research and dev...
According to sustainability transitions theory, socio-technical change requires a convergence of politics, social change, technology, and niche innovations. Recently, a circular economy has been proposed as the engine of such change in the EU New Green Deal and Germany. Mainstream circular economy emphasizes the closing of material loops as the way...
"Up to 70% of all new products are based on new materials and there is considerable scientific and economic potential in combining different material and technology domains in particular. Former research projects have shown that material scientists face several challenges in the later stages of the innovation process, especially in market placement...
Former research has shown that material scientists face several challenges in the later stages of the innovation process, especially in market placement meeting the needs of business customers and other stakeholders. Problems are e.g. too complicated communication of their work, missing understandable business cases, and uninspiring demonstrators....
Physically demanding work is still common in the western countries, with large proportions of the workforce that are exposed for more than a quarter of their working time to tiring postures or repetitive tasks: the shoulder is one of the main body areas susceptible to work-related MSDs. Recent advancements in assistive technology have provided new...
In the field of rehabilitation robotics, transparent, precise and intuitive control of hand exoskeletons still represents a substantial challenge. In particular, the use of compliant systems often leads to a trade-off between lightness and material flexibility, and control precision. In this paper, we present a compliant, actuated glove with a cont...
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Electrical Agricultural Machines
Structuring of electrified agricultural machine systems – Diversity of solutions and analysis methods .....1
GridCON2 – Development of a Cable Drum Vehicle Concept to Power 1MW Fully Electric Agricultural Swarms ..... 11
GridCON Swarm – Development of a Grid Connected Fully Autonomous Agricultural Production...
Reproducing the mechanisms of human locomotion is a hard challenge. Assistive wearable devices in this context need to be lightweight, portable, and to adapt to the wearer's walking pattern. Aiming to combine the aforementioned features, we developed a soft wearable exosuit to assist hip flexion during walking. The main feature of the device is und...
Numerous technological solutions have been proposed to promote piano learning and teaching, but very few with market success. We are convinced that users’ needs should be the starting point for an effective and transdisciplinary development process of piano-related Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (TaHIL) applications. Thus, we propose to in...
deutsch): Unsere bisherige Arbeit unterliegt durch die im Frühjahr 2020 in Europa angekommene COVID-19-Pandemie radikalen Veränderungen. War das Arbeiten im Homeoffice bisher für viele Mitarbeitende in Unternehmen eine Möglichkeit des gezielten Rückzugs, wurde es in kürzester Zeit zur temporären Pflicht. Für Unternehmen stellt sich, insbesondere in...
The concept of user experience as a product development approach has been well established in interaction design. Today, it is also widely used in industrial design practice in the field of consumer products. However, human experiencing is important in the field of industrial goods as well. Due to differences in the whole lifecycle, experience appr...
Die Grundregeln „eindeutig“, „einfach“ und „sicher“ (Kap. 14) sowie die im Kap. 15 beschriebenen Gestaltungsprinzipien sind aus den generellen Zielsetzungen an jedes zu entwickelnde Produkt abgeleitet und daher immer zu berücksichtigen. Darüber hinaus existiert eine Vielzahl spezifischer Gestaltungsrichtlinien, die jeweils auf für einen konkreten E...
This chapter addresses sensors and actuators for three main sensory modalities: hearing, vision, and touch. Technology in recent years was often focused on flat displays, e.g., or smartwatches. In contrast, the focus of this chapter is on wearable technologies of the post-smartphone area, allowing rich sensory input and output modalities. New appro...
The Internet of Skills aims at investigating how Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-Loop (TaHiL) technology can contribute to offer skill sets and expert capabilities to anybody, even at the most remote and diverse geographical regions. It will provide immersive training to laypersons (children, adults, and seniors) with or without physical or cogn...
Industriedesign ist die ganzheitliche Gestaltung eines industriell hergestellten Produktes im
Rahmen einer interdisziplinären Produktentwicklung. Das Produkt wird dabei verstanden
als ein interaktives Objekt innerhalb von technischen, sozialen, kulturellen, ökologischen
und ökonomischen Kontexten. Derartige Objekte sind zunehmend nicht mehr nur
phy...
With the evaluation of a next-generation human–machine interface (HMI) concept for excavators, this study aims to discuss the HMI quality measurement based on usability and user experience (UUX) metrics. Regarding the digital transformation of construction sites, future work environments will have to be capable of presenting various complex visual...
This paper presents experience-oriented aspects of the development of wearable assistive devices (exoskeletons) for industrial purposes, an area which has only begun to be explored. Our research aims to examine user acceptance criteria for assistive devices and understand the meaning of interaction with wearable assistive devices for the users. The...
With the introduction of ‘5G’ data transfer gets faster and further reaching than ever before. This new communication technology paves the way for an exchange of skills and competencies between humans and machines. This raises the question of how future users can profit and understand the potential brought about by these technologies. This paper el...
This paper presents experience-oriented aspects of the development of wearable assistive devices (exoskeletons) for industrial purposes, an area which has only begun to be explored. Our research aims to examine user acceptance criteria for assistive devices and understand the meaning of interaction with wearable assistive devices for the users. The...
Electrical Systems
Sustainable Agriculture in an Electrifed World – Cradle-to-Grave evaluation of different propulsion systems 1
Understanding the opportunities and challenges of self-driving, electric feld tractors using dynamic discrete-event simulation 9
Design and analysis of a magnetic-electrical power split gearbox for application in an agricu...
The almost unlimited potential that is and will be provided by additive manufacturing processes is an important current research topic. In terms of textile and ready-made technologies, composite structures can be created through continuously fiber-reinforced additive manufacturing and directly joined on planar textile surfaces. Based on the combina...
This chapter provides insight into the structure of a rather unique industrial design specialisation within the curriculum framework of a German mechanical engineering faculty. This specific setting involves a combination of educational approaches from humanities, art schools and engineering sciences. In addition to that, the chapter illustrates ho...
Kurzfassung: Die Bedeutung nicht-instrumenteller Qualitäten der Mensch-Technik-Interaktion erfährt durch Ansätze der User Experience besondere Beachtung. Während eine User Experience Design bei der Entwicklung interaktiver Konsumgüter mittlerweile zum Stand der Technik gehört, ist dies für physische professionell verwendete Produkte noch relativ ne...
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Analysis of Drive Trains
Model-Based Chiptuning Detection of Diesel Engines 1
M. Hinrichs, P. Pickel, John Deere GmbH, Kaiserslautern
R. Isermann, Institute of Automatic Control, Darmstadt
An Analysis of the Energy Consumption in the High-Pressure System of an Ag...
This paper aims to present teaching strategies applied to the Mindful Design approach in the TU Dresden industrial design curriculum. The main focus of this study is the implementation of Mindful Design on industrial design in a higher education context, which can be understood, applied and evaluated by design students. The concept of Mindful Desig...
5G verspricht eine energiesparende Kommunikation zwischen vielen Geräten mit hohem Datendurchsatz bei niedriger Latenz, sodass das Taktile Internet möglich wird. Die herkömmlichen Szenarien für 5G sind Telechirurgie und Car-to-Car Kommunikation. Insbesondere Car-to-Car Kommunikation ist ein zukunftsträchtiges Gebiet innerhalb des Internet of Things...
The approach of designing for experience has been developed in interaction design and adopted for product design in the recent years. There are scattered efforts on bringing the approach of designing for experience (or user experience design) to the field of industrial goods. There are few companies and research institutions exploring this field. R...
Additive manufacturing offers various opportunities in different industrial fields. Especially for textile production and ready-made technology it allows the creation of innovative multi-material systems and products. “Bend-It” combines a compression textile with joint guidance that is lightweight and stable made using fibre-reinforced 3D printing....
In a rapidly and radically changing world, there are more and new complex problems, technical but also social and societal ones. Due to that change, the understanding of design has developed and design education should adapt to this new role. This paper examines design for social contexts as a project in an industrial design engineering program. Do...
This book summarises the proceedings of the 75th conference “LAND.TECHNIK – AgEng 2017”, which took place in Hannover on November 10th and 11th following the tradition of odd years. Therefore it is a well established prelude to AGRITECHNICA, the world’s most important fair for agricultural machinery, which started on November 12th with the preview...
Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D-printing offers various opportunities in different industrial fields. Especially for the textile production and the ready-made technologies it allows the creation of innovative multi-material systems and products. The aim of this research is to develop a new functional process for customized orthopaedic devices by...
What will car-driving be like in the future? Will people be managers programming transportation devices? Will people be pawn in the hands of a service industry? Will people be committed to inaction despite all safety apparatus? Will there be a joy of driving? This paper presents an interdisciplinary students project that aimed at investigating the...
full paper available at http://www.drs2016.org/365/
This paper traces the roots of theories on experience and experiencing in the history of science of the 19th and 20th century. From the concepts of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911) and others, a phenomenological model of experiencing has been derived for industrial design around 1990, which is to be p...
Wie auch die Maschinen unterliegen Fahrerkabinen und Arbeitsplätze zukünftig den unterschiedlichsten Veränderungen. Dieser Vortrag gibt einen Einblick über die Entwicklung hinsichtlich Systemintegration, wachsenden Anforderungen an Sicherheit sowie Ergonomie hinsichtlich intuitiver Bedienerlösungen. Eine immer steigende Digitalisierung von Maschine...
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Im Mittelpunkt der 8. Fachtagung USEWARE 2016 steht der Mensch im Industrie-4.0- Zeitalter.
Intelligente Komponenten kommunizieren schon heute eigenständig über eingebettete Mobilfunk und Internettechnologien mit der Produktionsanlage und veranlassen bei Bedarf eine Reparatur durch den Menschen.
Das Potential der Digitalisierung in der Industrie st...
Im Mittelpunkt der 8. Fachtagung USEWARE 2016 steht der Mensch im Industrie-4.0- Zeitalter.
Intelligente Komponenten kommunizieren schon heute eigenständig über eingebettete Mobilfunk und Internettechnologien mit der Produktionsanlage und veranlassen bei Bedarf eine Reparatur durch den Menschen.
Das Potential der Digitalisierung in der Industrie st...
In this article we describe and discuss means that foster the emergence of innovation through representational methods which interrelate manual modeling with playfulness. Based on the observation that demands to innovation processes have changed significantly in recent years due to changed collaboration forms, like co-configuration or open innovati...
One often discussed reason for motorcyclists' high risk of accidents is that they are less conspicuous to other road users than are other motorised vehicles. The present paper aims to identify a front signal pattern created by additional light sources that would make motorcycles clearly and quickly distinguishable from other vehicles, and that woul...
What will the future of Automobility look like? Will it be increasingly assisted or even highly autonomous driving? How are we going to experience the phenomenon of motion in vehicles, if we don't actually participate in the task of driving or don't have to do so?
In the context of the summer project »Real Experience«, which was held in collaborati...
In den vergangenen Jahren hat sich das Interesse an ostdeut-
schem Design und ostdeutschen Designern spürbar erhöht. Doch
die Geschichte der zentralen Designförderinstitution in der DDR,
des Amtes für industrielle Formgestaltung (AIF) und seines lang-
jährigen Leiters Martin Kelm blieb trotz aller Forschungs-, Pub-
likations- und Ausstellungsvorh...
Full text at http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-144950
full paper: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-144950
Das Interesse an einer gleichberechtigten Teilhabe im Design hat von den 1960er-Jahren bis in die Gegenwart zu einer Reihe produktiver Gestaltungspraktiken und Theorien geführt. Heute stellt sich jedoch die Frage, ob das Leitbild der partizipatorischen Gestaltung nicht auf einem idealisierenden Verständnis von Demokratie und sozialer Beteiligung gr...
full-text PDF at http://tu-dresden.de/die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_maschinenwesen/imm/ktc/td/forschung/knowing_reasoning_visualizing_in_industrial_design
Industrial design processes can be described as human design problem solving, incorporating the acquisition, evaluation, production and transfer of specific knowledge. In this paper, we w...
During the last decade, psychological as well as design research have revealed the role of emotion accompanying cognition in the concept of user experience. Furthermore, in the early 2000s, the industrial goods branch increased its interest in industrial design and human-centred product development. In line with the human-centred perspective of ind...
Eine unzureichende Unterstützung bei der Informationsbereitstellung innerhalb von Planungs- und Entscheidungssituationen des Produktentwicklungsprozesses kann zu Risiken führen. Die frühe Phase ist für eine erfolgreiche Produktentwicklung von großer Bedeutung, da hier Unsicherheiten durch fundierte Entscheidungen reduziert werden können. In der Arb...
One often discussed reason for motorcyclists' high risk of accidents is that they are less conspicuous to other road users than are other motorised vehicles. The present paper aims to identify a front signal pattern created by additional light sources that would make motorcycles clearly and quickly distinguishable from other vehicles, and that woul...

Entwerfen – Entwickeln – Erleben. Drei zentrale Begriffe aus dem Alltag der Produktentwicklung stehen als Motto über den Beiträgen dieses Buches und sind das verbindende Element zwischen den differenzierten Sichtweisen der einzelnen Autoren zu einem gemeinsamen Gegenstand: Dieser umspannt das weite Feld de...
This paper describes an empirical field study on concept creation in transportation design. Derived from this study, a general model of design concepts is presented. Also, three essential method domains for the creation of experiential design concepts have been identified and are described in the paper.
Dass Design ein unverzichtbarer Bestandteil industrieller Produktentwicklung ist, wird branchenübergreifend von einem großen Teil der Unternehmen nicht mehr angezweifelt. Jedoch gibt es in vielen Bereichen noch scheinbar unüberwindbare Barrieren, Designkompetenzen in Entwicklungsprozesse einzubinden. Denn trotz empirischer Studien zum Wert von Desi...
Durch den Ideenwettbewerb der DINI initiiert, erarbeiteten Studenten des Zentrums für Technisches Design der TU Dresden ein Konzept zum lebendigen Lernen. Ergebnis ist ein durch produktorientierte und architektonische Einzelkonzepte gefülltes Gesamtkonzept, in dem eine gesamte Stadt zum Lernen offen steht und anstiftet. Nicht der Einzelarbeitsplatz...
This paper aims to discuss, to what extent industrial design methods are suitable for the use in the frontend of engineering design processes. The main focus is on the conceptual design stage. Based on a study within transportation design, a definition of experience concepts is suggested, the contained elements are described as well as processes to...
Die schwindende Differenzierung von Produkten durch technologische Gleichstellung, der Preiskampf auf zunehmend gesättigten Märkten, verkürzte Produktlebenszyklen und nicht zuletzt Produktpiraterie führen zu einem noch weiter erhöhten Innovationsdruck. Die als Antworten darauf notwendigen hochgradigen Innovationen entstehen oftmals nicht durch einf...
The paper presents results of a study about design concept development in transportation design. The main question of this study concerns mainly the existence and development of design concepts and its status in the design process furthermore it partially describes its content, manifestation and function.
The paper presents intermediate results of an ongoing study about conceptualization in early design stages – core design ideas. From the view of industrial psychology, the core design idea is the most important stage in the design process, because its availability determines the success regarding the design object and process. A core design idea is...