Christiane Attig, M. Sc. Psych.

Research interests

• Socially acting cognitive systems for assesing the need for help
• Human-Machine-Interaction, especially Human-Computer-Interaction
• Identification of behavioral indicators for competency level
• Emotion detection
• Personal quantification
• Questionnaire development

CV

Professional background

• since 2016: Researcher/PhD student at Chemnitz University of Technology (Professorship of Cognitive and Engineering Psychology)
• 2016: Research assistant at Chemnitz University of Technology (Professorship of Process Automation, Project StayCentered: An assistance system for air traffic controllers - MaCeLot)
• 2015-2016: Student tutor at Chemnitz University of Technology (Professorship of General Psychology and Biopsychology)
• 2013-2015: Student tutor at Chemnitz University of Technology (Professorship of Cognitive and Engineering Psychology)
• 2013-2014: Internships at Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Department of Neuropsychology)
• 2012: Internship at Klinikum Chemnitz (Neuropsychology)
• 2011-2016: Student/research assistant at Chemnitz University of Technology (Professorship of Cognitive and Engineering Psychology)
• 2007-2010: Work as a bookseller

Education

• 2013-2016: Master of Science program at Chemnitz University of Technology (Titel of Master's thesis: "Test anxiety among university students and its connection to heart rate variability – A pre-post comparison")
• 2013-2016: Bachelor of Science program at Chemnitz University of Technology (Titel of Bachelor's thesis: "I think, therefore I listen to classical music? The relationship of need for cognition and musical preferences")
• 2004-2007: Vocational training as a bookseller
• 2004: University entrance qualification (Abitur) at Gymnasium Voerde

Publications

Journals

Attig, C., & Franke, T. (2020). Abandonment of personal quantification: A review and empirical study investigating reasons for wearable activity tracking attrition. Computers in Human Behavior, 102, 223-237. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2019.08.025

Attig, C., & Franke, T. (2019). I track, therefore I walk – Exploring the motivational costs of wearing activity trackers in actual users. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 127, 211-224. doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2018.04.007

Franke, T., Attig, C., & Wessel, D. (2019). A personal resource for technology interaction: Development and validation of the Affinity for Technology Interaction (ATI) scale. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 35, 456-467. doi:10.1080/10447318.2018.1456150

Attig, C., Vitay, J., Hamker, F., & Krems, J. F. (2018). Helplessness in Human-Computer Interaction: A characterization and empirical investigation of observable indicators. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Bookchapters

Scholz, A., Franke, T., Platten, F., & Attig, C. (2019). Eye movements in vehicle control. In C. Klein, & U. Ettinger (Eds.), Eye movement research: An introduction to its scientific foundations and applications. Heidelberg: Springer.

Conferences and Invited Talks

Attig, C., Then, E., & Krems, J. F. (2019). Show me how you click, and I’ll tell you what you can: Predicting user competence and performance by mouse interaction parameters. In: W. Karwowski & T. Ahram (Eds.), Intelligent Human Systems Integration 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 903 (pp. 801-806). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-11051-2_122

Attig, C., Wessel, D., & Franke, T. (2018). Human-technology interaction from a personal resource perspective: The Affinity for Technology Interaction (ATI) scale. In J. Hartig & H. Horz (Ed.), 51. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie – Abstracts (p. 522). Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.

Attig, C., Then, E., & Krems, J. F. (2018). Mausparameter als Indikatoren für Hilfsbedürftigkeit in der MCI. In Mensch und Computer 2018 – Tagungsband. Bonn, Germany: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. doi:10.18420/muc2018-mci-0326

Trommler, D., Attig, C., & Franke, T. (2018). Trust in activity tracker measurement and its link to user acceptance. In Mensch und Computer 2018 – Tagungsband. Bonn: Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. doi:10.18420/muc2018-mci-0361

Attig, C., Karp, A., & Franke, T. (2018). User diversity in the motivation for wearable activity tracking: A predictor for usage intensity? In R. Tartaglia (Ed.), Proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association IEA 2018.

Attig, C., Mach, S., Wessel, D., Franke, T., Schmafuß, F., & Krems, J. F. (2018). Technikaffinität als Ressource für die Arbeit in Industrie 4.0. In Proceedings of the Innteract 2018 Conference. Chemnitz, Germany: Technische Universität Chemnitz.

Attig, C., & Krems, J. F. (2018). Gaze behavior as an indicator for user competence and state in human-technology interaction. In A. C. Schütz, A. Schubö, D. Endres, & H. Lachnit (Eds.), Abstracts of the 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (p. 19). Lengerich, Germany: Pabst Science Publishers.

Attig, C., Wessel, D., & Franke, T. (2018, Februar). ATI – eine Skala zur Erfassung von Affinität für Technikinteraktion. Präsentation im Forschungskolloquium des Quality and Usability Lab der Technischen Universität Berlin.

Attig, C., Wessel, D., & Franke, T. (2017). Assessing personality differences in human-technology interaction: An overview of key self-report scales to predict successful interaction. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), HCI International 2017 – Posters' Extended Abstracts, Part I, CCIS 713 (pp. 19–29). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58750-9_3

Attig, C., Rauh, N., Franke, T., & Krems, J. F. (2017). System latency guidelines then and now – Is zero latency really considered necessary? In D. Harris (Ed.), Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics 2017, Part II, LNAI 10276 (pp. 2-14). Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58475-1_1

Miscellaneous:

• ResearchGate
• Google Scholar
• Real Scientists DE