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AHFE 2017 BEST PAPER AWARDS
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Philipp Brauner |
Dr. Philipp Brauner
is a senior researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction
Center at RWTH Aachen University, Germany and engineers
holistic and viable ICT interventions to increase
workers’ productivity and job satisfaction.
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Ralf
Philipsen |
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André Calero Valdez |
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Martina Ziefle |
| Ralf Philipsen is
a researcher at the Human-Computer Interaction
Center at RWTH Aachen University. His research
addresses user acceptance and data visualization
in different technology contexts with foci on
mobility and infrastructure planning. In
addition, he investigates decision-making
processes in production enterprises, for
example, in supply chain and quality management. |
André
Calero Valdez holds a PhD in
Psychology from RWTH Aachen University and works
as a senior researcher at the Human-Computer
Interaction Center at RWTH Aachen University.
His research deals with how people derive
actionable knowledge from data using information
systems. He focuses on aspects of visualization,
recommender systems and system complexity. |
Martina
Ziefle is full professor for
Communication Science at RWTH Aachen and
director of the Human-Computer Interaction
Center at RWTH Aachen University. Her research
is directed to human-computer interaction and
technology acceptance in different technologies,
taking demands of user diversity into account.
In addition to teaching and directing research
in HumTec, Prof. Ziefle leads various projects
funded by industrial and public authorities,
dealing with the interaction and communication
of humans with technology. |
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Denis Coelho |
Denis Coelho,
Ph.D. earned his doctoral degree in 2002 and now holds
an extensive publication record in Human Factors and
Ergonomics and Product Design. He is an international
evaluator for Research Grant Proposals and Doctoral
dissertations. He is the founding and active editor in
chief of The International Journal of Human Factors and
Ergonomics (indexed in Scopus and published by
Inderscience). Founding Coordinator of the Industrial
Design Engineering Masters programme at University of
Beira Interior, Portugal. Assistant Professor of
Human-Technology Interfaces.
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Marcus Schmidt
(Corresponding author) |
Marcus studied
mathematics and physical education at TU Dortmund
University. Since finishing his degree (M.Ed.) in 2011
he works as a scientific employee at the institute for
sport and sport science at TU Dortmund University. He
will finish his phd this summer and his thesis is about
the use of inertial measurement systems for jumping and
sprinting diagnosis in track and field. Marcus main
research interests are the use of sensor technology for
in-field diagnosis of jumping and sprinting in several
sports (track and field, volleyball, basketball,
handball), as well as underlying aspects of motor
learning.
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Sebastian
Wille |
Dipl.-Ing.
Sebastian Wille joined 2010 the
Microelectronics Systems Design Research Group
of Prof. Wehn at TU Kaiserslautern. His research
is about design and evaluation of Internet of
things applications based on Wireless Sensor
Networks. In his studies of electrical and
information technology he won a prize from
Richard-Hirschmann-Stiftung for "prominent study
achievement" and the Klara-Röser prize "for
notably scientific work". 2005 he won the third
prize of german-wide Young Researcher
competition in the area of technology. Begin
2016 he founded Wille Engineering, a company
providing IT and electronic services. |

Carl Christian Rheinländer |
M. Eng. Carl
C. Rheinländer joined the
Microelectronics Systems Design Research Group
of Prof. Wehn at TU Kaiserslautern in 2015. His
research is about embedded ultra low power
hardware designs and communication technologies
for distributed interconnected systems. |
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Norbert Wehn |
Norbert
holds the chair for Microelectronic System
Design in the department of Electrical
Engineering and Information Technology at the
University of Kaiserslautern. He has more than
250 publications in various fields of
microelectronic system design and holds several
patents. Two start-ups spinout of his research
group. He is Vice-President of the University
Kaiserslautern, associate editor of various
journals and member of several scientific
advisory boards. In 2003 he served as program
chair for DATE 2003 and as general chair for
DATE 2005 respectively. In 2014 he was general
Co-Chair of FPL 2015. |

Thomas Jaitner |
Thomas
Jaitner is professor for movement and
training science at the TU Dortmund and head of
the sections “Movement and Training” as well
“Performance and Health”. Till 2016, he also was
director of the Institute of Sports and Sports
Science in Dortmund. Before he went to Dortmund,
he was working at the Universities of
Kaiserslautern, Leipzig and Frankfurt. His
research focus is on the analysis of complex
movement patterns and gross motor learning as
well as on the development and application of
wearable computing technologies for sports
performance analysis. |
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Nicholas Caporusso |
Nicholas Caporusso
is an entrepeneur and a scientist in the field of
Human-Machine Interaction. He got a MSc in Computer
science (magna cum laude) and a PhD in Computer science
and engineering, both awarded as the best theses. Then,
he gained a Fulbright scholarship in Technology
Entrepreneurship from Santa Clara University
(California, US). He founded three companies (dbGLOVE -
www.dbglove.com, QIRIS - www.qiris.org, and Paperleap -
www.paperleap.com) and he has been awarded several
prizes, including a Marie Skłodowska Curie fellowship.
He has been nominated by MIT Technology Review Italy as
one of the 10 best innovators under 35.
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Luigi Biasi |
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Giovanni Cinquepalmi |
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Gianpaolo Francesco
Trotta |
| Luigi Biasi gained
his MSc in Electrical and Information
Engineering (Magna cum Laude) at Polytechnic
University of Bari, where he focused on
assistive technology in both of his theses. |
Giovanni
Cinquepalmi gained his MSc in
Electrical and Information Engineering (Magna
cum Laude) at Polytechnic University of Bari,
where he focused on VR, on recognition of
movement and gestures, and on assistive
technology. |
Gianpaolo
Francesco Trotta graduated in
Computer Science Engineering at Polytechnic
University of Bari in April 2015, with a final
dissertation in Human Computer Interaction. Now
he is a Ph.D. student at Polytechnic University
of Bari in Mechanical Engineering. The research
goal is to study, design and develop systems to
use in medical and industrial environment using
virtual, augmented and mixed reality. |
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Antonio
Brunetti |
Antonio
Brunetti is a Ph.D. Student in
Electrical and Information Engineering at
Polytechnic University of Bari, where he is
working on Decision Support Systems (DSS) based
on data and biomedical systems for the
personalization and optimization of diagnosis,
prognosis and innovative therapies. He obtained
the Master Degree in Computer Engineering at the
Polytechnic University of Bari, where he
specialized in the fields of Human-Machine
interaction and Image Processing applied to the
medical field. |

Vitoantonio Bevilacqua |
Vitoantonio
Bevilacqua obtained the Laurea Degree
in Electronic Engineering and the Ph.D. in
Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic of Bari,
where he is currently Tenured Professor of Human
Computer Interaction at the Department of
Electrical and Information Engineering and
previously he also taught Expert Systems,
Medical Informatics and Image Processing. Since
1996 he has been working and investigating in
the field of computer vision and image
processing, human-machine interaction,
bioengineering, machine learning and soft
computing (neural networks, evolutionary
algorithms, hybrid expert systems, deep
learning). |
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AHFE 2017 BEST STUDENT PAPER
AWARDS
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Max Friedrich |
Max Friedrich is
currently working on his PhD at the German Aerospace
Center (DLR) at the Institute of Flight Guidance in
Braunschweig, Germany. His PhD focuses on the
development of a ground control station for Medium
Altitude Long Endurance Remotely Piloted Aircraft
Systems (MALE RPAS) operated in controlled airspace.
Since September 2015 Max holds a Master of Science in
psychology from the Technical University of
Braunschweig. During his studies he focused on
engineering and traffic psychology. His key research
interests are cognitive work analysis (CWA) and
perceptual psychology.
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Anne Papenfuss |
Anne
Papenfuss conducts research in the
Human Factors branch of the Institute of Flight
Guidance of the German Aerospace Center in the
development and evaluation of concepts and human
machine interfaces for airport management,
remote towers and remotely piloted systems. She
graduated with a Magistra Artrium in Media
Sciences from Braunschweig Technical University
in 2007. |

Andreas Hasselberg |
Andreas
Hasselberg received the diploma and
Dr.-Ing. degrees in engineering from the
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, in 2009
and 2014, respectively. He is member of the
Human Factors group in the Institute of Flight
Guidance of the German Aerospace Center (DLR),
Braunschweig, Germany since 2010. He is involved
in developing and validating new concepts for
human-automation interaction for cockpits, air
traffic control and remotely piloted aircraft
systems. He was recently Coordinator of the
EU-founded projects A-PiMod and MINIMA. |
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Akram Bayat |
Akram Bayat
is a Ph.D. candidate in computer Science at the Visual
Attention Laboratory of the University of Massachusetts
Boston advised by Professor Marc Pomplun. Akram received
both the master of Electrical Engineering and the master
of Computer Science prior to joining Ph.D. program. She
is currently working on how to apply human attentional
mechanism to deep neural network for the scene and
object recognition. Akram has conducted several projects
on Human activity recognition and eye-movement based
user classification. She is also interested in computer
vision, machine learning, data mining, and human-user
interface design. |

Amir Hossein Bayat |
Amir
Hossein Bayat received his BSc in
Computer Engineering from K.N.Toosi University
of Technology, in 2014 and his MSc degree in
Artificial Intelligence from Iran University of
Science and Technology in 2017. His research
interests include deep learning, probabilistic
graphical models, statistical machine learning,
and computer vision. |

Marc Pomplun |
Marc Pomplun
is a Professor of Computer Science at
the University of Massachusetts Boston, where he
joined the faculty in 2002. He received both his
M.S. in Computer Science and his Ph.D. in
Computer Science at Bielefeld University,
Germany, in 1994 and 1998, respectively, under
Professor Dr. Helge Ritter. He was a
Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of
Psychology at the University of Toronto and a
Research Scientist in the Center for Vision
Research and Department of Computer Science at
York University, Toronto. |
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