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Senior Expert for User Interaction and User Experience. Human Factors Expert, trained Psychologist, Major: Human-Machine-Interaction. Working in the field of Human Factors since 1988 in various positions: Post-Doc UMTRI ,USA, and TU Berlin, HMI Consultant for EADS and BMW. Since 2004 Senior Human Factors Expert at BMW in different positions for Research, Pre-development and Series Projects, InnovationRead more

Dr.-Ing. Marcus Heinath is head of department at IAV and responsible for the divisions: User Experience & HMI. His main tasks are in the area of HMI pre-development & prototyping as well as HMI series specification for infotainment systems, instrument cluster, head-up displays and apps. Biography: 1977: Year of birth in Brandenburg an der Havel,Read more

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Bettina Leuchtenberg is Leading Technical Expert HMI, Ergonomics and Usability at Continental Automotive Babenhausen. She studied psychology with focus on industrial psychology in Darmstadt. In 2004 she joined Siemens VDO in Babenhausen. Since 2012 she is Leading Technical Expert at Continental Automotive and responsible for HMI concept development and testing. Pop in Your Job: What drivesRead more

Female thought leader and winner of France’s leading female innovation UX award in 2016 <“Femme de l’innovation” at  the “Trophées des femmes de l’industrie” from usine nouvelle>, Saran Diakité Kaba is an industrial designer specializing in interaction/interface design, global User eXperience & agile development methods. Since graduating from ENSCI Les Ateliers (the National French schoolRead more

Åsa is a user-centric product leader with 7+ years of experience in tech start-ups. These years have taught her to see the big picture beyond the task at hand and find possibilities in places where others see only risks and ambiguity. Åsa pride herself on being a leader that empowers the team to take ownershipRead more

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Being 22 years in the fields of HCI, Helmut Windl currently works for Panasonic Automotive Europe near Frankfurt where he manages the Advanced Product Planning Group. Before he headed the HMI Design group at Continental Automotive’s Infotainment & Connectivity division. He was responsible for the visual and interaction design of infotainment concepts and products andRead more

Researcher with expertise in: – Motion simulation; Motion perception; – Human-Machine interaction; Biomechanics; Haptics; – System identification; Modeling; Control theory; – Experiment design; Data analysis; Programming; – Project management;Read more

Martin Riedl is the product manager of Elektrobit’s multimodal HMI product, EB GUIDE. He joined Elektrobit in 1998 as a software developer in the technology consulting division where he was responsible for several projects within the infotainment HMI field. He then took over the project management of EB GUIDE, then assumed the role of technicalRead more