Research Interests

Teleoperated Trains: Performance of Train Drivers

Signal and Hazard Detection in Rail Environments

Human Machine Interfaces in teleoperated Work Places

Research Projects

AuDiBaf - Automatisierung und Digitalisierung bahnbetrieblicher Funktionen

Publications

• Schmieder, B., Liehr, D., Friedel, S., Wehner, U., & Brandenburg, S. (2025). Human-Machine Cooperation for Automated Trains: Tasks and Workplace Design for Remote-Operated Shunting in Depots. 6th German Conference on Rail Human Factors, February 18th -19th, Berlin, Germany.
• Schmieder, B., Hensch, A.-C., & Brandenburg, S. (2025). The influence of auditive warning systems of teleoperated trains on the performance of remote operators. 5. Kongress der Verkehrspsychologie, March 19th - 20th, Munich, Germany. 
• Schmieder, B., Hensch, A.-C., & Brandenburg, S. (2025). Remote Control of Automated Trains. UITP Summit, June 16th - 18th, Hamburg, Germany. 
• Schmieder, B. (2024). Don’t stop me now: Reaction times and sensitivity of remote operators in teleoperated train systems. Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter, April 16-19, Lübeck, Germany.     
• Schmieder, B. & Liehr, D. (2024). Teleoperated Train Driving: Performance and Preferences of Remote Operators with Different Alert Systems. International Summer School for Humans & Technologies, September 26-28, Braunschweig, Germany. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14236695
• Schmieder, B. (2023). Design and evaluation of a human machine cooperation model for the remote operation of automated trains. International Summer School for Humans & Technologies, September 24-29, Chemnitz, Germany.

CV

Professional Experience

   Since 2023 – Research assistant and PhD Student | TU Chemnitz, Professorship of Cognitive Psychology and Human

   Factors

   2014 – 2023 Psychologist und Team Leader | ciT Zwickau GmbH

Qualification

   2009 – 2014 Bachelor and Master of Science in Psychology | University of Erfurt (Title of the Master thesis: „Theory of Mind:

   Comparison of own and others' mental states perception in implicit and explicit studies.”)

Teaching

2013 – 2024  Empirical and experimental practical course (topic: anchoring heuristics)

2014 – 2023  Work-Life-Balance 
                      digitization for beginners
                      organizational Management
                      psychological aspects of learning for lifespan