Address Prof. Dr. Reinhard Oppermann Fraunhofer-Institut for Applied Information Technology FIT Research Department ICON 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany Phone: +49 2241 14-2703 Fax: +49 2241 14 2146 Email: reinhard.oppermann@fit.fraunhofer.de

Interests in research and teaching

• Human factors:

User centered system development methodology with both user participation and integrating human factors into the design process
 
• User interface evaluation:

System evaluation methodology with cycles of design, evaluation, and redesign of system versions (evolutionary development) with integrating analyses of user demands and user feedback
 
• User Modelling:

Adaptation facilities to consider inter- and intra-individual differences in user interests, knowledge, and preferences with shared control about adaptations between the user and the system
 
• Learning:

Learning support for users by enhanced exploitation of the already acquired knowledge to strengthen the learning process beyond explicit learning events (life-long learning),
Integrating individual and group competence by supporting the knowledge transfer between peers and between consultants and users
 
• Mobile and nomadic information systems:

User support in location aware mobile applications modelling the user, the physical space, and the task domain of the user
 
• Contextualised information selection and presentation:

Putting information into the context of use transfers the information into knowledge for the user

Recent projects

• Adaptive User Support SAGA
• Evaluation of Dialog Systems EVADIS
• Cooperative Learning on User Demand CLOUD
• Interactive Simulation Models InterSim
• Hyper-Interaction within Physical Space HIPS
• Creation of User-Friendly Mobile Services Personalised for Tourism CRUMPET
• Situation Awareness in Motion SAiMotion
• Echtzeit-Vital-Monitoring auf Basis intelligenten Sensornetzwerks: senSAVE

Publications