Verena Wagner-Hartl

Hochschule Furtwangen University, Campus Tuttlingen, Germany

Recognizing emotions is an essential ability in our daily social interactions. However, there are individuals who have difficulties interpreting emotions, such as patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). In order to cope better with everyday life, emotion training can be a supporting factor for them. However, studies show that emotion trainin...

To ensure acceptance and conformity to society’s expectations for Automated Vehicles (AV), not only objective, but also subjective measures of safety in encounters between AV and Vulnerable Road Users (VRU) must be investigated. Objective safety of a traffic situation can be measured using Inoue et al.’s Safety Cushion Time (SCT) [8], which describ...

The number of scenarios where an interaction between humans and robots is part of the everyday life increased constantly during the last years. Therefore, it is important to focus on a good interaction between both parts, the humans and the robots, as well as the absence of negative emotions. Especially, emotions like fear and anxiety are of great...

An aging of the working population is expected. Consequently, age-related impairments of sensory functions (e.g., hearing impairment) will become more prominent. An increase of people with hearing impairment can already be observed today. In the last years, the importance of digitalization has increased constantly. This was further driven by the CO...

The number of video cameras in public places increases due to different reasons such as detecting dangers (e.g., thefts, robberies, terrorist attacks) and security breaches in crowds. The application of video surveillance systems is sometimes evaluated ambivalently; therefore, the presented study focuses on factors influencing the acceptance of a p...

There is an existing shortage of skilled personnel in the healthcare environment. The growing need for healthcare professionals due to the increasing number of elderly people represents a sociopolitical and economic challenge. It is expected that human-robot collaboration in healthcare will rise in the near future because it could be a great advant...

Artificial Intelligence has been blending into daily life by means of many useful applications from voice command to facial recognition. One therapeutic application to be supported by AI solutions is treatment of people with Autism Spectrum Disorder. A closed loop feedback system is planned in conjunction with a novel reward system that will encour...

Usability and user acceptance play an important role in the development of new systems. In the present study, a new generation of laser control software from TRUMPF Laser GmbH was evaluated regarding its usability and acceptance in a formative remote usability test. Because change processes, such as software relaunches, can lead to a change in the...

Emotions are a fundamental part of our social interaction. A person for whom it is difficult or impossible to interpret emotions may face major problems in everyday life, e.g., patients with autism spectrum disorders. However, understanding emotions is not only of great importance in private social interactions but also in the working environment,...

The recognition of emotions is an essential basis of human social interaction. This is relevant at all levels of human interaction. However, the ability varies greatly among people. For this reason, the measurement of emotions is of great interest for a wide variety of applications. Furthermore, it is also an interesting topic in the current COVID-...

An increase of human-robot collaboration is expected in the near future. Many people are already experiencing this in their working life, especially in the industrial context for example in production. As technology continues to improve, the number of scenarios and tasks in which humans and robots can interact with each other is also increasing. Th...

It is expected that human-robot collaboration will increase in the future. Some people are already experiencing this in their working life, but other people are still skeptical about it. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought new challenges to the world’s population and has a strong impact on our everyday working life. The question arises, whether the p...

Facial emotion recognition (FER) is useful in many different applications and could offer significant benefit as part of feedback systems to train children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who struggle to recognize facial expressions and emotions. This project explores the potential of real time FER based on the use of local regions of interest...

Facial emotion recognition (FER) is a topic that has gained interest over the years for its role in bridging the gap between Human and Machine interactions. This study explores the potential of real time FER modelling, to be integrated in a closed loop system, to help in treatment of children suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The aim o...

In the future, an aging of the working population is expected. This also means that age-related impairments of sensory functions like hearing impairment will become more prominent. Based on the growing importance of digitalization the question arises if a mHealth-app could be able to improve the first start experience of possible new hearing aid us...

Arabian, H., Wagner-Hartl, V., & Möller, K. (2021). Facial emotion recognition based on localized region segmentation. In: AUTOMED – Automation in Medical Engineering 2021. Full text available via: https://zenodo.org/record/4922791#.YQg07UBCSUl A feedback system for the emotional training of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is being...

Facial emotion recognition (FER) has gained interest and focus over the years. It can be useful in many different applications and could offer significant benefit as part of feedback systems to help train children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who struggle to recognize facial expressions and emotions. This paper explores the effectiveness and...

Especially in the field of transportation many facets of human factors should be considered. Many of them can profit from the inclusion of psychophysiological methods. Thinking about well-designed and high-quality products that have the possibility to inspire customers, leads to the problem that subjective sound impression cannot easily be describe...

The present article focuses on how mHealth tools for medical devices like hearing aids or blood glucose meters for diabetics should be designed. Overall, 125 participants aged between 18 and 79 years participated in an online survey. The results of the study show that on average the participants were partly willing to have the use of a medical devi...

It is expected that human-robot collaboration will increase in the future. This also applies to the care sector. Some people are still skeptical about the use of robots in the care sector, others see it as a solution to counteract the care crisis. Therefore, an exploratory study was conducted to get more insight in this important future field. Over...

An increase in human-robot collaboration is expected in the future. It can be assumed that this development will affect both, our working environment and our private lives. An exploratory study (N = 116) was conducted to get more insight in this important future field. The results of the study can help to understand how human-robot collaboration in...

In the future, an increase of electric vehicles (EVs) is expected. There is still uncertainty, however, how to design the sound of this new vehicle types in order to meet customers’ expectations and requirements. A study was conducted to get more insight in this important future field. Overall, 48 participants evaluated different acceleration and r...

Following current prognosis, demographic development raises expectations of an aging of the working population. Therefore, keeping employees healthy and strengthening their ability to work, becomes more and more important. When employees become older, dealing with age-related impairments of sensory functions, such as hearing impairment, is a centra...

Based on demographic prognoses, itmust be assumed that a greater number of older workers will be found in the future labor market. How to deal with their possible age-related impairments of sensory functions, like hearing impairment and work performance during extended working time, has not been addressed explicitly until now. The study addresses t...

Current prognosis raises expectations of an aging of the working population. Hence, dealing with age-related impairments of sensory functions becomes more and more important for the future working world. While vision-related impairments are often corrected, the same is, unfortunately, not true for hearing impairment. This results in the situation,...

User characteristics should be considered when designing features for e-health or m-health applications, as the developed solution should aim to support this specific target group. This study explores the effect of user characteristics (personality, health state, stress/recovery state, leadership behavior) on the interest and likelihood of using an...

Leaders engaging in health-promoting leadership can influence their employees’ health directly by showing health awareness or indirectly by changing working conditions. With health-promoting leadership, leaders are able to support a healthy working environment by providing resource-oriented working conditions for their employees to support their he...

Vehicle sounds play an important role concerning customer satisfaction and can show another differentiating factor of brands. With an online survey of 1762 German and American customers, the requirement characteristics of high-quality vehicle sounds were determined. On the basis of these characteristics, a requirement profile was generated for ever...

According to current prognosis, an excess of age is expected for the working population. Therefore, dealing with age-related impairments of sensory functions such as hearing impairment, is a central issue. Age and age-related impairments might influence employees’ performance especially in exhausting and stressful working situations. Furthermore, r...

Demographic development will lead to an aging working population. Therefore, dealing with age-related impairments like hearing impairment has become a central issue. Thus, there is need in a valid screening instrument for hearing impairment. So, a new simple method, the Category Subdivision Scale of Subjective Hearing Impairment (CSS-SHI), was test...

Following current prognosis, an aging of the working population is expected. A field study was conducted to investigate interventions to strengthen the ability to work of (older) employees. Interventions should support them to recover from stress to maintain performance and work-related motivation. The current paper addresses this interplay and ana...

Abstract In the case of evacuation events, human factors play an important role for the effective outcome of evacuations. Therefore, the design and organization of evacuation systems can be seen as crucial factor. Behavioral aspects of human beings in critical situations can be described considering the theory of behavioral inhibition and activatio...

Quantitative investigations on stress conditions in evaluation scenarios have so far mainly been conducted in static scenarios, such as, in desktop studies. Studies involving the mobility of participants are rather rare, in particular, considering substantial comparison between different stress conditions. Recently, data and eye tracking glasses ha...

Social cues are of general importance in human attention. Even when presented with task-oriented stimuli, social cues are preferred. In orientation tasks, the degree of the impact of social cues on the perception of signal cues is of high relevance for the behavior, such as in evacuation tasks. Therefore, we investigated the degree of this impact,...

Population developments raise expectations of an aging working population. These create new challenges for the working world. One is to deal with age-related impairments such as hearing impairment which impacts performance due to impairment of speech comprehension, memory performance and can lead to safety risks. In order to compensate this proacti...

Vehicle sounds are important factors of customer satisfaction and have a decisive influence on the product automobile and its quality impression. It becomes more and more important to connect customer requirements and technical specifications to develop a vehicle sound with high quality. The turn indicator sound can be described as one sound, which...

Nowadays, driver and passenger comfort is a major factor in the automotive industry and sound quality can be seen as one of the most important comfort aspects. In this study, one of the sounds, which can play a role in the customers’ perception of vehicle quality – the air conditioning sound – was investigated. In a laboratory experiment, 18 differ...

The human machine interface (HMI) in a vehicle is subject to constant change. The growth in number and complexity of technical systems in the vehicle cockpit confronts the driver with new displays, components, and interaction logic. Automotive HMI deals with three different scopes including infotainment, comfort features, and driver assistance feat...

The design and the evaluation of evacuation systems are crucial to guarantee successful responses after an incident. Recent results are presented that target to significantly improve evacuation simulation by parameterizing the human agents’ behavior with information on human factors about stress, perception and decision making. In particular, the s...

Geräusche im Fahrzeuginnenraum sind ein wichtiger Faktor der KundInnenzufriedenheit und haben einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf das „Produkt“ Automobil sowie den Qualitätseindruck. Die subjektive Wahrnehmung eines Produktes und dessen Geräusche lassen sich nicht einzig mithilfe technischer Parameter bestimmen; vielmehr ist es für die Produktentwick...

The following article provides a brief overview of applied haptics research at Daimler AG. In order to meet the need to impart knowledge to students and do justice to the nature of this textbook greater attention will be paid to the objectives, the research object and methodology instead of reporting detailed results of specific studies. The purpos...