@phdthesis{LyTung2017,
  author    = {Ly Tung, Nam},
  title     = {Toward an Intelligent Long-Term Assistance for People with Dementia In the Context of Navigation in Indoor Environments},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-155235},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Dementia is a complex neurodegenerative syndrome that by 2050 could affect about 135 Million people worldwide. People with dementia experience a progressive decline in their cognitive abilities and have serious problems coping with activities of daily living, including orientation and wayfinding tasks. They even experience difficulties in finding their way in a familiar environment. Being lost or fear of getting lost may consequently develop into other psychological deficits such as anxiety, suspicions, illusions, and aggression. Frequent results are social isolation and a reduced quality of life. Moreover, the lives of relatives and caregivers of people with dementia are also negatively affected. Regarding navigation and orientation, most existing approaches focus on outdoor environment and people with mild dementia, who have the capability to use mobile devices. However, Rasquin (2007) observe that even a device with three buttons may be too complicated for people with moderate to severe dementia. In addition, people who are living in care homes mainly perform indoor activities. Given this background, we decided to focus on designing a system for indoor environments for people with moderate to severe dementia, who are unable or reluctant to use smartphone technology. Adopting user-centered design approach, context and requirements of people with dementia were gathered as a first step to understand needs and difficulties (especially in spatial disorientation and wayfinding problems) experienced in dementia care facilities. Then, an "Implicit Interactive Intelligent (III) Environment" for people with dementia was proposed emphasizing implicit interaction and natural interface. The backbone of this III Environment is based on supporting orientation and navigation tasks with three systems: a Monitoring system, an intelligent system, and a guiding system. The monitoring system and intelligent system automatically detect and interpret the locations and activities performed by the users i.e. people with dementia. This approach (implicit input) reduces cognitive workload as well as physical workload on the user to provide input. The intelligent system is also aware of context, predicts next situations (location, activity), and decides when to provide an appropriate service to the users. The guiding system with intuitive and dynamic environmental cues (lighting with color) has the responsibility for guiding the users to the places they need to be. Overall, three types of a monitoring system with Ultra-Wideband and iBeacon technologies, different techniques and algorithms were implemented for different contexts of use. They showed a high user acceptance with a reasonable price as well as decent accuracy and precision. In the intelligent system, models were built to recognize the users' current activity, detect the erroneous activity, predict the next location and activity, and analyze the history data, detect issues, notify them and suggest solutions to caregivers via visualized web interfaces. About the guiding systems, five studies were conducted to test and evaluate the effect of lighting with color on people with dementia. The results were promising. Although several components of III Environment in general and three systems, in particular, are in place (implemented and tested separately), integrating them all together and employing this in the dementia context as a fully properly evaluation with formal stakeholders (people with dementia and caregivers) are needed for the future step.},
  language  = {en}
}
@techreport{Segueda2015,
  type      = {Working Paper},
  author    = {Segueda, Wendpanga Eric},
  title     = {Imported Religions, Colonialism and the Situation of Women in Africa},
  edition   = {1},
  issn      = {2199-4315},
  doi       = {10.25972/OPUS-12240},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-122400},
  pages     = {24},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Women are a key to development, and gender is crucial to development policies. However, Western development organisations often promote gender equality as something valued in the West, or even as a new idea altogether, rather than taking the time to research how it was rooted in African societies. The same holds true for many Africans who frequently argue that gender equality is a Western idea. This paper intents to show that gender equality or complementarity is not an altogether new phenomenon to African societies, but that it existed in pre-colonial Africa. Raising awareness on this within African societies can help to put in place strategies for gender equality and facilitate change from within.},
  subject      = {Afrika},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Koerner2014,
  author    = {K{\"o}rner, Anita},
  title     = {Psychological Mechanisms in Embodied Cleansing},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-112569},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {Ein schwerer Rucksack l{\"a}sst H{\"u}gel steiler wirken (Proffitt et al., 2003). Kaum wahrgenommene Ger{\"u}che beeinflussen Ordentlichkeit (Holland, Hendriks, \& Aarts, 2005). Kaubewegungen beeinflussen, als wie vertraut man vorher gesehene Namen bewertet (Topolinski, 2012). Die vorliegende Arbeit besch{\"a}ftigt sich mit derartigen Auswirkungen von k{\"o}rperlichen Zust{\"a}nden, Sinneswahrnehmungen und Handlun- gen auf psychische Zust{\"a}nde und Vorg{\"a}nge, die als Embodiment bezeichnet werden. In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird zuerst Embodiment im Vergleich zur Computer- metapher des Informationsverarbeitungsansatzes definiert und Betrachtungen zu Metaphern f{\"u}r die menschliche Psyche im Allgemeinen aufgestellt. Danach werden verschiedene psychologische Mechanismen f{\"u}r Embodiment-Ph{\"a}nomene aufgezeigt. Kapitel 2 f{\"u}hrt alle Embodiment-Ph{\"a}nomene auf drei verschiedene grundlegende psychische Mechanismen zur{\"u}ck, die alleine oder in Kombination alle Embodiment- Ph{\"a}nomene erkl{\"a}ren k{\"o}nnen. Da die Untersuchung zugrundeliegender Mechanis- men bisher eher wenig verbreitet ist, werden außerdem empirische Testverfahren dargestellt, mit deren Hilfe zwischen verschiedenen Mechanismen f{\"u}r spezifische Ph{\"a}nomene unterschieden werden kann. W{\"a}hrend die Inhalte dieser Arbeit also Embodiment-Ph{\"a}nomene sind, ist die Herangehensweise—die Untersuchung kog- nitiver Prozesse—in der Social Cognition Perspektive verwurzelt. Der empirische Teil der Arbeit untersucht einen spezifischen Embodiment-Effekt genauer, n{\"a}mlich den Einfluss k{\"o}rperlicher Reinigung auf psychische Prozesse, die verk{\"o}rperte Reinigung. In Kapitel 4 wird untersucht, inwiefern sich Hilfsbereitschaft nach eigenem moralischen oder unmoralischen Verhalten durch physikalische Reinigung {\"a}ndert—inwiefern man sich also von einem moralisch positiven oder moralisch negativem Gef{\"u}hl reinwaschen kann (zwei Experimente mit insgesamt 476 Teilnehmern). In Kapitel 5 wird untersucht, wie sich durch physikalische Reinigung die {\"A}nderungen in Optimismus und Selbstwert reduzieren, die durch Erfolg oder Misserfolg in einem vorangehenden Leistungstest hervorgerufen wor- den waren (drei Experimente mit insgesamt 372 Teilnehmern). Die Grundidee bei verk{\"o}rperter Reinigung ist also, dass physikalische Reinigung nicht nur physis- che sondern auch psychische R{\"u}ckst{\"a}nde entfernt. Das heißt, dass der Einfluss vorheriger Erfahrungen durch H{\"a}ndewaschen reduziert werden sollte. In dieser Arbeit sollen die psychologischen Prozesse untersucht werden, die den Einfluss von Reinigung auf die Psyche vermitteln k{\"o}nnten. Ausgehend von be- reits bekannten Auswirkungen k{\"o}rperlicher Reinigung auf verschiedene psychische Prozesse, werden zwei m{\"o}gliche Erkl{\"a}rungen f{\"u}r das Ph{\"a}nomen der verk{\"o}rperten Reinigung kontrastiert und {\"u}ber deren zugrundeliegende Prozesse spekuliert (Kapi- tel 3). Kapitel 4 vergleicht die Effekte verk{\"o}rperter Reinigung, wenn die beiden Erkl{\"a}rungen konvergierende Vorhersagen machen (nach moralisch negativen Erin- nerungen) und wenn die beiden Erkl{\"a}rungen divergierende Vorhersagen machen (nach moralisch positiven Erinnerungen). Kapitel 5 untersucht dann eine der beiden Erkl{\"a}rungen genauer. Daf{\"u}r werden verschiedene Aspekte der Reinigungshandlung variiert um die notwendigen und hinreichenden Kriterien f{\"u}r verk{\"o}rperte Reinigung und damit auch die beteiligten psychischen Prozesse zu untersuchen. Die Ergebnisse des Einflusses verk{\"o}rperter Reinigung in Kapitel 4 sind nicht interpretierbar, weil der vorausgesetzte Einfluss positiver und negativer moralischer Erinnerungen auf prosoziales Verhalten nicht nachweisbar war. Mit ge{\"a}ndertem Grundparadigma ließ sich dann in Kapitel 5 ein stabiler Effekt verk{\"o}rperter Reini- gung nachweisen. Eine Variation verschiedener Faktoren der Reinigung ergab, dass eine intentionale oder zumindest wissentliche Reinigung essentiell ist und dass sich diese Reinigung auf den eigenen K{\"o}rper (und nicht auf einen Gegenstand) bezieht damit physische Reinigung zu psychischer Reinigung f{\"u}hrt. Damit spielen sowohl inferentielle als auch automatisch Prozesse eine Rolle bei Effekten verk{\"o}rperter Reinigung. Zum Abschluss der Arbeit werden die Erkenntnisse und Limitierungen der ak- tuellen Arbeit diskutiert und die beiden m{\"o}glichen Reinigungserkl{\"a}rungen in einen anthropologischen Kontext gestellt. Anschließend wird der hier verfolgte Ansatz mit anderen Arten von Embodiment-Erkl{\"a}rungen verglichen.},
  subject      = {Psychologie},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Zarife2014,
  author    = {Zarife, Rami},
  title     = {Integrative Warning Concept for Multiple Driver Assistance Systems},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-101118},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t W{\"u}rzburg},
  year      = {2014},
  abstract  = {More warning Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) will be integrated into the European vehicles in the coming years, due to the ongoing progress on the way to automated driving and Euro NCAP requirements. Furthermore, upcoming technologies like Car-2-X will extend the sensory horizon of ADAS and enable the possibility to warn drivers earlier against various hazards than today. Regarding this progress, increasing numbers of different ADAS warnings will be communicated to the driver. In this context, an important question is how multiple ADAS warnings can be integrated into the Human Machine Interface (HMI) of vehicles and which warning elements are needed to ensure warning acceptance, efficiency and understandability seen from the driver's point of view. Two driving simulator studies were conducted and the effects of specific warning elements examined to develop a concept for the integration of upcoming warning ADAS, which focuses on early collision warnings. The implemented early warnings were defined with a warning onset of approximately two seconds before the last possible warning onset. Main questions were whether and how drivers profit from warning direction cues and/or warning object cues for their response to a hazard, and how these cues affect the acceptance of an integrated warning ADAS approach. Furthermore, it was analyzed whether a generalized warning can be used for a cluster of different ADAS concerning the group "warning of collisions". Therefore critical scenarios in rural and urban surroundings were evaluated, including frontal and lateral (intersections) scenarios. Unnecessary warnings and false alarms have also been taken into account. The results indicate that early warning direction cues have a high potential to assist drivers with an ADAS warning cluster which covers warning of collisions. In contrast, warning object cues seem to be less important for the drivers' performance and acceptance regarding early collision warnings. According to these findings, this thesis provides recommendations which warning elements should be included into future ADAS warnings in favor of an integrated warning approach.},
  subject      = {Fahrerassistenz},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{GueldenpenningKoesterKundeetal.2011,
  author    = {G{\"u}ldenpenning, Iris and Koester, Dirk and Kunde, Wilfried and Weigelt, Matthias and Schack, Thomas},
  title     = {Motor expertise modulates the unconscious processing of human body postures},
  series = {Experimental Brain Research},
  volume    = {213},
  journal   = {Experimental Brain Research},
  doi       = {10.1007/s00221-011-2788-7},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-141089},
  pages     = {383-391},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Little is known about the cognitive background of unconscious visuomotor control of complex sports movements. Therefore, we investigated the extent to which novices and skilled high-jump athletes are able to identify visually presented body postures of the high jump unconsciously. We also asked whether or not the manner of processing differs (qualitatively or quantitatively) between these groups as a function of their motor expertise. A priming experiment with not consciously perceivable stimuli was designed to determine whether subliminal priming of movement phases (same vs. different movement phases) or temporal order (i.e. natural vs. reversed movement order) affects target processing. Participants had to decide which phase of the high jump (approach vs. flight phase) a target photograph was taken from. We found a main effect of temporal order for skilled athletes, that is, faster reaction times for prime-target pairs that reflected the natural movement order as opposed to the reversed movement order. This result indicates that temporal-order information pertaining to the domain of expertise plays a critical role in athletes' perceptual capacities. For novices, data analyses revealed an interaction between temporal order and movement phases. That is, only the reversed movement order of flight-approach pictures increased processing time. Taken together, the results suggest that the structure of cognitive movement representation modulates unconscious processing of movement pictures and points to a functional role of motor representations in visual perception.},
  language  = {en}
}