Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors

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INSTITUTE

Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors
Ardeystr. 67
D - 44139 Dortmund

Phone: +49 / 231 1084 301/302
Fax: +49 / 231 1084 340
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Phone: +49 / 231 1084 302
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Academic background

since 1991 at the Institut für Arbeitsphysiologie / Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, IfADo
1984 Habilitation, (venia for psychology), Faculty of psychology and sports at the Bielefeld University
1973-1991 scholar, research assistant, deputy professor, visiting professor, professor, and fellow in Marburg, Bielefeld, Düsseldorf, Regensburg, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Wassenaar (NIAS)
1978 Dr. rer. nat., Philipps-Univ. Marburg
1973 Dipl.-Psych., Philipps-Univ. Marburg

Research interests

Current research

Field of research "Visual stimuli and reality"
(Herbert Heuer, Felix Klimmer, Katrin Rapp)
In perceiving and controlling self-performed movements that are displayed on a monitor, characteristics of the visual stimuli can loose their relations to the physical world. For example the normal relation between a visual distance and a motor distance can be lost so that distances are indeterminate. We inquire about spontaneously chosen movement amplitudes in such situations and about ways to re-calibrate the visual stimuli. (more …)
Field of research "Transformations - learning and performance"
(Herbert Heuer, Martin Fritz, Thomas Kleinsorge, Sandra Sülzenbrück)
Adaptation to the transformation characteristics of a tool appears to be largely implicit. We ask for the joint effects of implicit and explicit adjustments to modifications of the visuo-motor gain and for the performance with a particular kind of tool, a lever that can be rotated and shifted. (more …)
Field of research "Age-related changes"
(Herbert Heuer)
Transformed movements with indirect vision seem to be a particular challenge for older workers. In a series of studies within the DFG Priority Program "Altersdifferenzierte Arbeitssysteme" we ask for the boundary conditions under which age-related changes of different types can be observed. (more …)

Teaching

Verhaltens- und neurowissenschaftliches Kolloquium [Behavioural and neuroscientific colloquium], IfADo, Dortmund (summer term 2008, winter term 2007/2008)