­72nd Spring Congress of the Society for Ergonomics

This year, the spring congress of the Gesellschaft für Arbeitswissenschaft e.V took place in Kassel under the motto "Human-centered work design". The Chair of Labour Engineering was represented with several contributions:

• "Identification of suitable procedures for the prospective evaluation of work tasks with digital assistance systems with regard to mental stress." (Wähnert and Ott)
• "Simulation of stress scenarios to improve the application of key characteristic methods" (Wagner et al.)
• "A concept for the semi-automated annotation of movement data for the ergonomic assessment of work-related postures" (Scherstjanoi et al.)
• "Methodology for the determination of correction factors for standardized approach speeds on metalworking machine tools" (Gröllich et al.)

The conference proceedings for reading all contributions can be found here: https://www.gesellschaft-fuer-arbeitswissenschaft.de/inhalt/dokumente/gfa_fruehjahrskongress_2026.pdf