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Dr. rer. nat. Tim Schürmann

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Dr. Schürmann worked as a scientific staff member in the research group Work and Engineering Psychology at the Institute of Psychology at the TU-Darmstadt from 1 November 2013 to 31 April 2020 and successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled „Evaluation bayesianischer kognitiver Modelle in der Vorhersage menschlichen Verhaltens“ (engl.: Evaluation of Bayesian Cognitive Models in the Prediction of Human Behaviour) on 28 January 2019. Prior to that, he worked on the sub-project “Nutzersensibilisierung für Privatheit und Vertrauen” (engl. User Sensitisation for Privacy and Trust) of the Research Training Group Privacy and Trust for Mobile Users. He applied probabilistic inference models to investigate the decision-making behaviour of users in the case of privacy violations. Furthermore, he applies the paradigm to various questions from the field of work and social psychology in order to evaluate the fit between computational decision models and human behaviour.

  • 2019 Doctorate
  • Since 2013 scientific staff member in the research group Work and Engineering Psychology, Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt
  • 2009-2010 and 2012-2013 Student assistant in the research group on Work and Engineering Psychology at the Institute of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt
  • 2010-2012 Student assistant at the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, layout and electronic media departments
  • 2008-2013 Study of Psychology, Technical University of Darmstadt
  • 2008 Abitur

• Schürmann, T., Gerber, N., Gerber, P. (2020). Benefits of Formalized Computational Modeling for Understanding User Behavior in Online Privacy and Security Research. Journal of Intellectual Capital, ahead-of-print. doi: 10.1108/JIC-05-2019-0126

• Schürmann, T., Vogt, J., Christ, O., Beckerle, P. (submitted). The Bayesian Causal Inference model benefits from an informed prior to predict proprioceptive drift in the Rubber Foot Illusion.

• Herbst, J., Polanski-Schräder, L., Vogt, J., Schürmann, T., Beckerle, P. (submitted). Reliability and Validity Analysis of the Questionnaire to Explore Human Factors and their Technical Potential for Lower Limb Prosthetics.

• Schürmann, T., Smirny, J., Zimmermann, S., & Vogt, J. (2019). Can Probabilistic Cognitive Modeling Explain Adoption Behavior of Smartphone Apps Gathering Private Data? PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h7srx

• Schürmann, T., Mohler, B., Peters, J., Beckerle, P. (2019). How cognitive models of human body experience might push robotics. Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 13, 14.

• Schürmann, T. (2019). Evaluation bayesianischer kognitiver Modelle in der Vorhersage menschlichen Verhaltens (Dissertation, Technische Universität Darmstadt).

• Schürmann (2017). Psychological Evaluation of Human Choice Behavior in Socio-technical Systems: A Rational Process Model Approach. 11th IFIP WG 11.11 International Conference on Trust Management, 2017, Göteborg.

• Beckerle, P., Christ, O., Schürmann, T., Vogt, J., von Stryk, O., & Rinderknecht, S. (2017). A human-machine-centered design method for (powered) lower limb prosthetics. Robotics and Autonomous Systems. doi: 10.1016/j.robot.2017.05.004

• Schürmann, T. (2016) Uncertain risk representations and the disclosure of private information: A Bayesian approach towards understanding user behavior. Proceedings of the 10th Joint Workshop of the German Research Training Groups in Computer Science. p. 177.

• Beckerle, P., De Beir, A., Schürmann, T., Caspar, E. (2016). Human body schema exploration: Analyzing design requirements of Robotic Hand and Leg Illusions. 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 763-768.

• Schmidt, M., Penner, D., Burkl, A., Stojanovic, R., Schürmann, T., Beckerle, P. (2016). Implementation and evaluation of a low-cost and compact electrodermal activity measurement system. Measurement, 92, pp. 96–102.

• Wojtusch, J., Beckerle, P., Schürmann, T., Schumacher, M., Christ, O., Seyfarth, A., Rinderknecht, S., Vogt, J., Stryk, O. (2016). Towards Seamless Integration of Active Assistive Devices into the User's Body Schema. In: Cybathlon Symposium, October 6, 2016, Kloten, Schweiz.

• Schürmann, T., Beckerle, P., Preller, J., Vogt, J., Christ, O. (2016). Theoretical Implementation of Prior Knowledge in the Design of a Multi-Scale Prosthesis Satisfaction Questionnaire. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 15:288 DOI: 10.1186/s12938-016-0288-5

• Schürmann, T., Overath, P., Christ, O., Vogt, J. & Beckerle, P. (2015). Exploration of Lower Limb Body Schema Integration with Respect to Body-Proximal Robotics. 1st International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry, IEEE, pp. 61-64.

• Schürmann, T., Frackenpohl, K., Binder, C. & Vogt, J. (2015). Rationalität im Beruf – ein Konzept zur probabilistischen Modellierung arbeitspsychologisch relevanter Entscheidungsprozesse. 9. Fachgruppentagung Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie, 2015, Mainz.

• Schürmann, T., Binder, C., Janzarik, G. & Vogt, J. (2015). Movement Transformation on Multi-Touch Devices – Intuition or Instructional Preparation? . Applied Ergonomics, 50, 251-255

• Schürmann, T., Beckerle, P., Vogt, J. & Christ, O. (2014). Sind Urteile von Experten unterschiedlicher Berufsbiografien einstimmig? Eine Studie zur professionellen Beurteilung von Beinprothesen. Orthopädie und Technik, 2/14, 30-35

• Müller-Leonhardt, A., Mitchell, S., Vogt, J., Schürmann, T. (2014). Critical Incident Stress Management in complex systems: cultural adaptation and safety impacts in healthcare. Journal of Accident Analysis and Prevention, 68, 172-180

• Schürmann, T., Beckerle, P., Christ, O. & Vogt, J. (2013). Factors influencing the acceptance of lower limb prosthetics: Integrating patient needs and technical improvements. Robotics Science and Systems, 2013, Berlin.

• Schürmann, T. & Christ O. (2013). Psychological dimensions from an expert perspective: effect on survey design to enhance prosthesis technology. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 45 (9), 955-956

• Christ, O., Wolff, K., Seehaus, A., Schabel, A. & Schürmann, T. (2009). The effect of visual delay on muscular activation patterns in a simple motor task. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the British Association of Cognitive Neuroscience. London.

  • WS 2018 / 19 Design project: Projektarbeit & Prozessanalyse
  • WS 2017 / 18 Design project: Projektarbeit & Prozessanalyse
  • SS 2015 Seminar: Ausgewählte Themen der klinischen Psychologie
  • WS 2014 / 15
    • Design project: Projektarbeit & Prozessanalyse
    • Seminar: Psychologische Produktanalyse
  • SS 2014
    • Exercise: Peripher-physiologisches Messen
    • Seminar: Ausgewählte Themen der klinischen Psychologie
  • WS 2013 / 14
    • Design project: Projektarbeit & Prozessanalyse
    • Exercise: Multivariate Verfahren