Alexander Neumann

Project Transformation in Care & Technology: - Primarily responsible for research focus “Context Sensitive Engineering of Care-Technology” - Research into software development processes specifically for the healthcare and social services sector - Implementation and supervision of industry collaborations and study projects on the use and training of large language models (LLM) in documentation and evaluation in health and social services;

Project AVIKOM: - Development of a cognitive multimodal AR assistance system for use in production, logistics and assembly - Design and development of an augmented reality-based Unity3D application for use with the Microsoft HoloLens (2) - Design and development of methods for multimodal orchestration of assistance functions based on user preferences, environmental factors and needs assessments of the “Structural Dimensional Analysis of Mental Representations” (SDA-M)

CITEC LSP Cognitive Robotic Service Apartment & KogniHome: - Research and development of several prototypes for use in the smart home sector (intelligent cooking assistant, intelligent apartment door, intelligent mirror) - Requirements elicitation and analyses in cooperation with industry partners and other working groups - Maintenance and enhancement of the continuous integration (CI) processes of the Cognitive Robotic Service Lab • Development of responsive user interfaces for use in various prototypes

CRC 673 "Alignment in Communication", Project C5 "Alignment in AR-based cooperation": - Design and implementation of an AR system for the investigation of co-orientation strategies in dyadic interactions - Synchronization of corpus data consisting of video, audio and sensor data and evaluation with methods of exploratory data analysis (EDA) - Development of analysis tools and classifiers from simple pattern recognizers to complex neural networks for object and activity recognition in video data

Augmented Reality-enabled Communication Research

Physical Computing, Human Centered Design, Ubiquitous Computing, Methods of Interaction Analysis

Machine Learning, Human Computer Interaction, Datamining, Software Development, Cognitive Science, Behavioral Science

Textmining, Computer Linguistic, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Machine Learning, Algorithms and Data Structures