Engineering Psychology and Applied Cognitive Research - Prof. Pannasch
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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pannasch
Chair of Engineering Psychology & Applied Cognitive Research
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Prof. Dr. Sebastian Pannasch directs the chair for Engineering Psychology and Applied Cognitive Research at the Faculty of Psychology at TU Dresden.
His research focuses on the understanding of perception, attention and information processing in the context of active vision, principally via analysis of eye movement behavior. In particular, he investigated the behavior of visual fixations in scene perception but also in interactive task settings. Based on these findings, he has linked particular eye movement patterns to distinct processing modes. Current work aims to further explore this hypothesis also by combining eye-tracking with neurophysiological measurements. The majority of these research activities were implemented within interdisciplinary projects.
Another area of interest is to integrate these new findings into a more applied context. For instance, he has employed changes in fixation behavior to the recognition of hazards in driving, used gaze-contingent perspective correction in virtual environments, and developed gaze-directed control and analysis paradigms in social interaction. Therefore, in his research he aims to connect basic research questions with perspectives for future applications.
The research has also been part of his previous teaching activities, for instance in relation to achievements in vision research and visual attention but also various topics in engineering psychology and applied cognitive research. In these course participated students of psychology, computer science and engineering.
He was awarded a Marie-Curie Fellowship “EyeLevel” and the DFG Research scholarship on “Levels of cognitive organization in human eye movements”. He coordinated the EU NEST Pathfinder Project “PERCEPT - Perceptual Consciousness – Explication and Testing” and participated in the European Network of Excellence “COGAIN - Communication by Gaze Interaction”. His previous professional positions include Assistant Professorships and Fellowships at Aalto School of Science and Technology (Finland), University of California at Santa Cruz (USA), and Bauhaus Universität Weimar (Germany).