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Rald Leiter is responsible for Manager Systems, Functional Safety and Cyber Security at Nippon Seiki.Read more

Studied Psychology at the University of Wuerzburg and Otago, New Zealand. 2015 completed her PhD in Psychology researching Driving behavior and driver assistance at traffic light intersections 2012-2017 worked as Project Lead for Human Factors for EE active safety systems at Opel/GM Europe Since 2017 developer at AUDI AG department EE User Interface/User Experience withRead more

Responsible for HMI research coordination, strategy and roadmap creation at Scania CV. Educated as an Industrial Designer with focus on Human Factors at Lund University, SWEDEN, I started as the first physical usability expert at Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications in 2004; at the time mobile phones were shrinking and so were the buttons of theRead more

Studied communication electronics and technical cybernetics at Heilbronn and Newcastle University and received his Master of Science degree in signal processing and control in 2000. In 2011, he finished a General Management program at London Business School. Started his career within the Volkswagen Group in 2000, where he worked for four different car brands inRead more

2017 – until now: Faurecia Principal Designer HMI & UxD, (Sen. Expert & Functional Lead UxD, X-Global, X-BG) 2014 – 2017: Visteon Electronics Principal Designer HMI (Infotainment Systems, ADAS, Instrument Cluster, HUD) 2006 – 2014: Johnson Controls Electronics Principal Designer HMI (Instrument Cluster, HUD, User Centered Development Process) 2003 – 2006: The Ohio State University,Read more

Dr.-Ing. Dipl.-Psych. Frederik Diederichs is researcher and consultant at Fraunhofer IAO. His major interest are in human-machine interaction for the mobility of tomorrow. In numerous projects for OEMs, Tier 1s and as part of international cooperations he has collected data for driver state analysis in driving simulators and on-road testings. He developed a driver modelRead more

From zero to one, a vision for future in-car UX. My mission is to create safe, easy and fun to use infotainment systems. A PhD qualified UX Strategist with 15 years of experience on usability, UX research and human-machine-interface development.Read more

Coming from a brand communication and brand strategy background, Julia first got in touch with HMI for automotive in 2014 when she as an employee of Allround Team started to support the Ford HMI core team under Dr. Stefan Becker. As a cultural anthropologist (M.A.) and designer (Dipl. Des. (FH)) the frequent iterations and extensiveRead more

Peter Pollmanns is currently Senior UX/UI Specialist Speech at the MBition Mercedes-Benz Innovation Lab.Read more

Dr. Thomas Vöhringer-Kuhnt is currently the Team Lead HMI/UX for premium brands of Geely Auto Group. Previously, he was a part of Continental Automotive GmbH where he joined in 2014 as Head of Center of Competence HMI. He is supervising ergonomics, UX engineering, UI and industrial design activities inside business unit Instrumentation & Driver HMI. HeRead more