Module CS5330-KP06
Human-Machine-Systems (MMS)
Duration
1 Semester
Turnus of offer
each winter semester
Credit points
6
Course of studies, specific fields and terms:
- Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2019, optional subject, Digital Healthcare
- Master in Health and Healthcare Science 2025, optional subject, Digital Healthcare
Classes and lectures:
- Potentials and Limits of Digital Technologies (seminar, 1 SWS)
- Interaction Technologies (lecture, 2 SWS)
- Human-Machine Interaction in Healthcare (lecture, 2 SWS)
Workload:
- 105 hours private studies and exercises
- 75 hours in-classroom work
Contents of teaching:
- Human information processing and action processes
- Models for Human-Machine Systems and Interactive Media
- User modeling and special user groups
- Age-appropriate design of human-machine systems
- Evaluation of human-machine systems in healthcare
- Methods and approaches for measuring acceptance and user experience
- Human-robot interaction and human-robot cooperation
- Social Robotics and Emotional Interaction
- Innovative concepts and systems
- Fundamentals of interaction technologies
- Graphical interaction systems (GUI)
- Touch interfaces
- Gesture and speech recognition, sensors for whole-body interaction
- Interaction technologies based on eye control and facial expressions, emotion recognition
- Organic User Interfaces (OUI)
- Brain-Computer-Interfaces
- Ambience interaction systems
Qualification-goals/Competencies:
- Students are able to apply systematic and theoretically sound methods for designing user interfaces of interactive systems.
- In addition to the psychological and informatics basics, they are also familiar with findings and methods from graphic and communication design.
- They can categorize existing systems and develop concepts to improve them.
- They know the technical basics of current interaction technology and can assess possibilities and limits.
- They have a good overview of the current state of development of technical interaction systems.
Grading through:
- portfolio exam
Responsible for this module:
Literature:
- Preim B, Dachselt R (2010) : Interaktive Systeme Band 1 Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer
- Preim B, Dachselt R (2015) : Interaktive Systeme Band 2 Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer
Language:
- German and English skills required
Notes:
Details of the varying literature sources can be found in the teaching materials.Admission requirements for taking the module:
- CS4540 Technologies in Healthcare Delivery
- CS4530 Methods and Processes in the Development of Technical Systems
Admission requirements for taking module examination(s):
- None
Module Exam(s):
- CS5330-L1: Human-Machine Systems, portfolio examination consisting of: 30 points in the form of a seminar paper with presentation and 70 points in the form of a 90-minute written examination , 100% of module grade
Last Updated:
16.09.2025