Module PY4210-KP05

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Master MES 2020, optional subject, interdisciplinary
• Bachelor MES 2020, optional subject, interdisciplinary
• Master Media Informatics 2020, compulsory, psychology

Classes and lectures:

• Engineering Psychology (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Engineering Psychology (lecture, 2 SWS)

Workload:

• 45 hours in-classroom work
• 105 hours private studies and exercises

Contents of teaching:

• Fundamentals of Engineering Psychology
• human-machine systems
• Information Processing in Human-Technology Interaction
• Selective attention in interface interaction
• Situation awareness and mental models
• Situation assessment and action selection
• Manual control and election response tasks
• Errors
• Workload and stress
• Multitasking and Resource Management
• Automation (levels, automation trust)
• User diversity

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Students can receive, classify and use psychological engineering research contributions.
• The students can explain central theories and findings of engineering psychology with reference to relevant questions of human-technology interaction and interface conception.
• Students can derive design guidelines for man-machine systems from concepts and findings in engineering psychology.

Grading through:

• portfolio exam
• written exam

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Franke

Teacher:

• Institute of Human-Centered Interactive Systems
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Thomas Franke

Literature:

• Wickens, C., Hollands, J., Banbury, S., & Parasuraman, R. (2013) : Engineering psychology and human performance. Boston: Pearson
• Proctor, R., & van Zandt, T. (2018) : Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Language:

• offered only in German

Notes:

Last Updated:

27.07.2021