Prof. Dr. Tilo Mentler

Tilo Mentler has been Professor of Human Computer Interaction and User Experience at Trier University of Applied Sciences since 2020. He was previously a junior professor at the University of Lübeck from 2016 to 2020. There he coordinated the research projects NetzDatenStrom and TaBeL, among others. He researches and teaches the human-centered development of computer-based interactive systems and heads the HCI lab. His research work, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Carl Zeiss Foundation, focuses on the goals, needs and abilities of users of modern technology - be it children and young people with VR glasses in pediatric surgery, professional emergency services with mobile devices in security areas or older people who use serious games for fitness and health purposes. In 2022, he received the special award for international teaching from Trier University of Applied Sciences for the Israeli-German course “AI and the Elderly”. He is the chair of IFIP Working Group 13.5 - Human Error, Resilience, Reliability, Safety and System Development and a member of the steering committee and former chair for the Usable Safety & Security (UseSafeSec) specialist group of the German Informatics Society.

He is involved in interdisciplinary cooperation in several research projects, among others:

• PervaSafe Computing: Pattern-Based Wearable Assistants for Safety-Critical Human-Computer Interaction in Control Rooms (in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Kristof Van Laerhoven; funded by German Research Foundation within SPP 2199 "Scalable Interaction Paradigms for Pervasive Computing Environments")
• TabiRi-HKS: Tablet-basierte Patienteninformation über das Hautkrebsscreening mit individueller Risikobestimmung im Haus- und Facharztsetting (in cooperation with Institut für Sozialmedizin und Epidemiologie (ISE), University of Lübeck; funded by Stiftung Deutsche Krebshilfe)
• Serious Games Lab“ (SGL)  foucssing on „Senior Health Games“ (SHG) (together with several colleagues from Trier University of Applied Sciences, funded by Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung)
• Artificial intelligence and the Automated Ordering of Digital Communication (in cooperation with Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft und Haifa Center for Law & Technology; funded by VolkswagenStiftung)
• Virtual Reality for pain relief in the treatment of children and adolescents (in cooperation with Klinik für Kinderchirurgie, UKSH)
• Virtual Reality in the education and training of rescue workers (in cooperation with DRK-­Rettungs­dienst­schule Schleswig-Holstein)
• Interactive test of interpersonal problems in depressive patients (in cooperation with Zentrum für Integrative Psychiatrie - ZIP gGmbH, UKSH)

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