Since 2014 Martin Baumann is professor for Human Factors at Ulm University. His main research interests are the cognitive processes underlying human behaviour in human-machine systems, such as the comprehension and anticipation of events in dynamic situations, attention allocation and multi-tasking, trust formation and calibration in human-machine interaction. The main application domains of his research are driver-automated vehicle interaction, human-robot interaction and human-AI interaction. The goal is to develop and evaluate strategies for cooperative human-machine interaction based on psychological theories of human information processing.
Martin received his PhD in 2001 from Chemnitz University of Technology. He continued as assistant professor in Chemnitz until 2006. After finishing a post-doc project at the German Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) he joined the German Aerospace Center 2007 where he led the teams “Driver Cognition and Modeling” and “System ergonomics and interaction design” until 2014. Martin is co-founder of the section Engineering Psychology of the German Psychological Association that was established in 2018. Since then he is member of the Executive Committee of the section as First Speaker (2018 – 2021) and Co-Speaker (2021 – 2023). Martin is member of the HFES since 2019 and member of the HFES Europe Chapter since 2021.