CUT : Chemnitz University of Technology
General description: As a university of technology CUT offers a wide variety of courses and research programs from engineering sciences such as microtechnology, process engineering, information technology as well as from the social and behavioural sciences (like psychology). More than 160 professors, around 500 senior and junior scientists and around 400 people from administration are currently employed by the university. CUT has more than 10000 students. As part of the department of psychology the Laboratory of Applied Cognitive Sciences (Director: Prof. Dr. J. F. Krems) focuses on driver behaviour in general and on drivers interaction with information and assistance systems in particular. The focus is on cognitive workload and divided attention, diver distraction, skill acquisition in highly complex domains and on evaluation methods for new systems.
Roles in the ITN: Technical manager / Supervise and train a PhD student who will work on short- and long term effects of ADAS on situation awareness / Taking part in the training program.
Researcher:
Josef F. Krems