Month: September 2024

The triennial conference of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA) took place this year on the beautiful island of Jeju, South Korea. The conference, with a total of over 1,200 papers and 2,000 participants from research and industry, covered all topics relating to ergonomics. In two contrib...

Efficiency in product development is becoming increasingly important due to growing market requirements. The focus is often on developing products according to the "first-time-right" principle, thus reducing the number of iterations. This results in high costs, especially in late development stages....

Gwen Spelly joined the user-centred design research group as a research assistant at the beginning of September. Previously, she studied medical engineering, specializing in medical device engineering and prosthetics, at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. As a student assistant and d...

System models are used in the context of model-based systems engineering (MBSE) in order to improve communication and are essential for system documentation. However, scientific approaches in recent years show that the further utilization of these system models is of interest, for example in the for...