Projects
Here are some of the public, private, and student projects I have had the pleasure of working on. As a Senior UX Designer and Project Lead at Ergosign, one of Germany’s leading UX service providers, I create, analyze, prototype, evaluate, and optimize interaction designs, services, and processes in the mobility, industry, and enterprise domains. For confidentiality reasons, the respective client projects cannot be listed here.
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Explaining Automation Behavior of Automated Vehicles in the City: Project STADT:up
STADT:up aims to design consistent, scalable solutions for future urban mobility in which vehicles can navigate safely through complex, inner-city traffic situations. It is a collaborative project with 22 partners from industry…
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Context-Based Interface Prototyping for Autonomous Vehicles: PhD Project
Humanity’s dream of autonomous mobility dates back almost a century. However, its fulfillment always continued to stay about 20 years away. With recent developments, it seems a tipping point in automotive history…
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Interacting with Autonomous Mobility-On-Demand Systems: Project APEROL
Autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) systems could provide around-the-clock, cost-effective, and flexible mobility services without fixed schedules, stops, or drivers and be controlled entirely via digital user interfaces. In the research project APEROL, funded by…
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Evaluating Multimodal Human-Machine Interfaces for Highly Automated Truck Driving
Highly automated driving (SAE Level 3) enables vehicles to take over longitudinal and lateral control without requiring constant driver supervision (Gasser et al., 2012). This technology, already approved for public roads in…
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Development & Evaluation of a Proactive Driver Warning System to Protect Vulnerable Road Users
Vulnerable road users (VRUs) make up a large proportion of annual road deaths. In 2015, 22% of road fatalities worldwide were pedestrians and 4% were cyclists (World Health Organization, 2015). As the…
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Augmented Reality in Industry 4.0: Potential for Optimizing Troubleshooting Processes
The increasing connection of components of industrial machine production processes to form so-called cyber-physical systems is vehemently changing the working world of humans. The monitoring and control of automated machines is increasingly…
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Supporting Endangered Animals through Information Design: Project Devil’s Face
Devil’s Face is a design concept for a speculative iPad Application by Zoos Victoria supporting the „Save the Tasmanian Devil Program“ of the Australian and Tasmanian governments. Using infographics, the app illustrates…
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Raising Awareness of Climate Change with Humor and Design: Save the Ales!
Save the Ales is a global Earth Hour initiative by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). This animated project uses infographics and humor to raise awareness about climate change from an unexpected…
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Design & Development of a Microscopy E-Learning Platform: Project mikropi
Learning to use a microscope is part of the basic training for medical students. Providing adequate courses and materials is challenging for lecturers since 1) microscopy courses often require expensive and specialized…