Tina Bobbe

• Diplom
• Research Associate at Technische Universität Dresden

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 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...

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...

Designing science exhibits that promote visitor engagement and learning remains a challenge. While theoretical models about visitor learning has been thoroughly addressed in the academic literature, there is little empirical knowledge about actual exhibit design. This takes place in a landscape of rapidly developing interaction technologies, while...

A growing interest in interdisciplinary research can be observed throughout the past decades. Previous work has provided general principles for facilitating collaborative work in academia, but direct interdisciplinary experiences are quite rare in the literature. In this article, we provide our insights on executing interdisciplinary research in a...

Communicating science to the public is increasingly important. Demonstrators are a valuable and established tool for communication in technology research and development. However, their role in communicating current science and technology to the public has not received much attention neither in research nor practice. This paper reflects on the desi...

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...

The importance of a general public being informed about science and technology has never been greater. Research institutions add to informal science communication with face-to-face events, during which the public interacts with scientific prototypes, functioning as science exhibits, in order to learn about science. The relevance of these out-of-the...

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...

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...