Dr. Rebecca Wiczorek

M. Sc. Human Factors

B. Sc. Psychology

Research focuses:

• Human-machine interaction and demographic change
• Attention control with assustance systems
• Behavioral effects of alarm systems
• Trust in automation

Protzak, J., Wiczorek, R. & Gramann, K. (submitted). Age-related changes in peripheral visual perception during natural overground dual-task walking.Neurobiology of Aging.

Breitinger, F., Wiczorek, R. (reviewed). Mobility of older pedestrians: a holistic consideration of the walking process of older people. Frontiers in Sociology.

Qureshi, H. & Wiczorek, R. (accepted). Sensor fusion for detecting street environments. International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, WSCG 2019.

Zirk, A., Wiczorek, R., & Manzey, D. (2019). Do We Really Need More Stages? Comparing the Effects of Likelihood Alarm Systems and Binary Alarm Systems. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society

Wiczorek, R., & Meyer, J. (2019). Effects of trust, self-confidence, and feedback on the use of decision automation. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 519, 1-12

De Waard, D., Brookhuis, K., Coelho, D., Fairclough, S., Manzey, D., Naumann, A., Onnasch, L., Röttger, S., Toffetti, A. & Wiczorek, R., (2019). Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter 2018 Annual Conference. ISSN 2333-4959 (online).

Wiczorek, R. & Zirk, A. (2019) Using warning systems with adaptable thresholds: Choice of security level, compliance and performance in a simulated computer security task, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 125, 32-40. (2018, online first.

Qureshi, H. S., Glasmachers, T. Wiczorek, R. (2018). User-centered development of a pedestrian assistance system using end-to-end learning. In 2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA) (pp. 808-813).

Wiczorek, R. (2018). Psychological issues for developing systems for older users. In R. Weidner & A. Karafillidis (Hrsg.). Developing Support Technologies: Integrating multiple perspectives to create assistance that people really want (S.109-115). Springer Nature Switzerland.

Breitinger, F. & Wiczorek, R. (2018). Außerhäusliche Mobilität älterer Menschen als Voraussetzung für ein selbstbestimmtes Leben: ein technisches Assistenzsystem zur Unterstützung der Verkehrssicherheit. In H. Uszkoreit & A. Burchardt (Hrsg.). IT für Soziale Inklusion: Digitalisierung – Künstliche Intelligenz – Zukunft für alle (S. 121-140).  De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

Qureshi, H., Breitinger, F. & Wiczorek, R. (2018). Entwicklung und Evaluation eines Fußgänger-Assistenzsystems für ältere Nutzerinnen und Nutzer. In A. Burchardt & H. Uszkoreit (Hrsg.). IT für Soziale Inklusion: Digitalisierung – Künstliche Intelligenz – Zukunft für alle (S. 141-159). De Gruyter Oldenbourg.

Qureshi, H., Bagueri, Y., Boxhorn, S., Breitinger, F.,  Protzak, J., Wiczorek, R. (2017). Umwelt-System-Mensch-Interaktion: Auswahl und Evaluation von Sensorik und Aktuator eines Fußgänger-Assistenzsystems für ältere Menschen im Straßenverkehr. In: Eibl, M. & Gaedke, M. (Hrsg.), INFORMATIK 2017. Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn. (S. 713-716).

Protzak, J., & Wiczorek, R. (2017). On the Influence of Walking on Hazard Detection for Prospective User-Centered Design of an Assistance System for Older Pedestrians. i-com, 16(2), 87-98.

Siegmann, J., Protzak, J. & Wiczorek, R. (2017). Modality effects of secondary tasks on hazard detection performance of younger and older pedestrians in a simulated road crossing task. In D. de Waard, A. Toffetti, R. Wiczorek, A. Sonderegger, S. Röttger, P. Bouchner, T. Franke, S. Fairclough, M. Noordzij, and K. Brookhuis (Hrsg.). Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter 2016 Annual Conference (S. 21-34). http://hfes-europe.org [2]

Wiczorek, R. (2017). Investigating users’ mental representation of likelihood alarm systems with different thresholds. Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science, 18(3), 221-240. (2016, online first)

Wiczorek, R., & Meyer, J. (2016). Asymmetric Effects of False Positive and False Negative Indications on the Verification of Alerts in Different Risk Conditions. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 60, No. 1, pp. 289-292). SAGE Publications.

Wiczorek, R., Siegmann, J. & Breitinger, F. (2016). Investigating the impact of attentional declines on road-crossing strategies in older pedestrians. In D. de Waard, K.A. Brookhuis, A. Toffetti, A. Stuiver, C. Weikert, D. Coelho, D. Manzey, A.B. Ünal, S. Röttger, and N. Merat (Hrsg.) Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter 2015 Annual Conference (S. 155-169). http://hfes-europe.org [3]

Wiczorek, R., Balaud, M. & Manzey, D. (2015). Investigating benefits of likelihood alarm systems in presence of alarm validity information (pp.850-854). In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 59th Annual Meeting. Santa Monica: Human Factor and Ergonomics Society

Breitinger, F., Protzak, J. & Wiczorek, R. (2015). Conceptualizing Everyday Mobility of Older People as Basis for the Development of a Pedestrian Assistance System. Proceeding of the 13^th AAATE Conference  2015. (S. 935-940) Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Breitinger, F., Tecza, K., Protzak, J. & Wiczorek, R. (2015). Design of a template for a scenario-based evaluation as part of the user-centered development of an assistance system for older pedestrians. In Tagungsband der 11. Berliner Werkstatt Mensch-Maschine-Systeme. (S. 314-317) Berlin.

Manzey, D., Gérard, N. & Wiczorek, R. (2014). Decision-making and response strategies in interaction with alarms: The impact of alarm reliability, availability of alarm validity information, and Workload. Ergonomics, 57(12), 1833-1855.

Wiczorek, R. & Manzey, D. (2014). Supporting Attention Allocation in Multi-Task Environments: Effects of Likelihood Alarm Systems on Trust, Behavior and Performance. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics, 56(7), 1209–1221.

Wiczorek, R., Manzey, D. & Zirk, A. (2014). Benefits of Decision-Support by Likelihood versus Binary Alarm Systems: Does the number of stages make a difference? In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 58, No. 1, S. 380-384). SAGE Publications.

Meyer, J., Wiczorek, R. & Guenzler, T. (2014). Measures of Reliance and Compliance in Aided Visual Scanning. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, 56(5), 840–849. (2013, online first).

Merkel, C. & Wiczorek, R. (2012). Does higher security always result in better protection? An approach for mitigating the trade-off between usability and security. In  D. Waard, K. Brookhuis, F. Dehais, C. Weikert, S. Röttger, D. Manzey, S. Biede, F. Reuzeau, and P.Terrier (Hrsg.), Human Factors: a view from an integrative perspective (S.1-13). http://hfes-europe.org/ [4]. 

Wiczorek, R., Meyer, J., & Guenzler, T. (2012). On the relation between reliance and compliance in an aided visual scanning task. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 56, S. 253-257). Santa Monica, CA: HFES.

Wiczorek, R. (2012). Verhaltenswirksamkeit von Likelihood Alarmsystemen (Doctoral dissertation, Universitätsbibliothek der Technischen Universität Berlin).

Wiczorek, R., & Onnasch, L. (2012). Development of a model predicting the use of automated decision aids. In D. Waard, N. Merat, A. Jamson, Y. Barnard, & O. Carsten (Hrsg.), Human Factors of Systems and Technology (S. 51–61). Maastricht, NL: Shaker Publishing.

Wiczorek, R. (2012). Verhaltenswirksamkeit von Alarmsystemen. In J. Stubbe & M. Töppel (Hrsg.), Muster und Verläufe der Mensch-Technik-Interaktivität, TUTS (S. 45–50). Berlin: Institut für Soziologie.

Wiczorek, R. & Manzey, D. (2011). Der Einfluss der Schwellensetzung bei Likelihood-Alarmsystemen auf Produktivität und Sicherheit. In M. Grand & S. Schmerwitz (Hrsg.) Ergonomie im internationalen Gestaltungsprozess. 53. Fachausschusssitzung Anthropotechnik der DGLR. (S.121-135) Bonn: DGLR.

Wiczorek, R. (2011). Entwicklung und Evaluation eines mehrdimensionalen Fragebogens zur Messung von Vertrauen in technische Systeme. In Schmid, S., Elepfandt, M., Adenauer, J. & Lichtenstein, A. (Hrsg.) Reflexionen und Visionen der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion – Aus der Vergangenheit lernen, Zukunft gestalten. 9. Berliner Werkstatt Mensch-Maschine-Systeme. (S.621-626) Berlin: Spektrum. 

Onnasch, L., Wiczorek, R. & Manzey, D. (2011). Ist „Wenig-Vertrauen“ gleich Misstrauen? Zur (UN-) Abhängigkeit von Vertrauen und Misstrauen in Alarmsysteme. In Schmid, S., Elepfandt, M., Adenauer, J. & Lichtenstein, A. (Hrsg.) Reflexionen und Visionen der Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion – Aus der Vergangenheit lernen, Zukunft gestalten. 9. Berliner Werkstatt Mensch-Maschine-Systeme. (S. 615-620). Berlin: Spektrum. 

 Wiczorek, R., & Manzey, D. (2011). Evaluating likelihood alarm systems as an alternative to binary alarm systems. In D. Waard, N. Gérard, L. Onnasch, R. Wiczorek, & D. Manzey (Hrsg.), Human centred automation (S. 69–83). Maastricht, NL: Shaker Publishing.

 Wiczorek, R., & Manzey, D. (2010). Is operators’ compliance with alarm systems a product of rational consideration? In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting (Vol. 54, S. 1722–1726). Santa Monica, CA: HFES.