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Fachgruppe Human Factors
Chapter Human Factors
Fachgruppe Human Factors 

What is Human Factors

Our program is strongly interdisciplinary oriented and includes the fields of psychology, engineering and computer science. Human Factors deals with the interaction between human and machine and therefore the smooth interaction through insights from different sciences is the main focus.

If you would like to take a closer look at the content of the masters progamm Human Factors at TU Chemnitz, you can take look at the programm structure. If you have questions about this you can write us an e-mail and we'll advise you.

Why in Chemnitz

In which city you want to start your Master is never easy to decide and should be well thought out. If you are not sure, then let yourself be convinced by the many offers and just ask us for our opinion.

Here are just a few points that speak for Chemnitz as your city of choice:

  • very good ratio of students and university personal
  • saxony-wide valid ticket for the public transit
  • University with the 2nd largest share of international studentds in Germany (as of: 15.02.2018)
  • Students recieve free offers in art and culture
  • low rent for appartments in close proximity to the university and inner city
  • well-developed infrastructure with bus and tram

Documents and important links

Through the interdisciplinary approach our degree program allows us to choose from a wide range of courses from different faculties.>It's not always easy to keep track and that's why we have developed a planning tool for you, so you can be sure about the number of ECTS you have to take and plan your courses accordingly.


You can create your own timetable via the course catalog with our specific courses for each semester.

Knowing where each course takes place is essential, and it can be a bit difficult to find the right room in the beginning. The TUC is spread over 4 locations in the city and for the moment there is a double naming of all rooms. A good tool to help is the "campusfinder", which will give you a map for the different locations.


New here? Check out our Chemnitz guide for a good start in Chemnitz.

FAQs for beginners

With the use of the OPAL webpage you can enrol in most of the courses. If a course is not listed here you can find relevant content and relevant information at the webpages of the associated professorship.

News (e.g. successuful enrollment in OPAL-courses) are communicated via your web-mail account.

Yes, partly. This is usually communicated in every first lesson of the course. For example, you need to apply for a  FRIZ -account for the course "Introduction to Computer Graphics" in order to be able to participate in the exercises.

These matters are to be discussed with the examination office examination office.  You can also find out who is responsible for our Master by following the link.

All available courses can be found in the study regulationexamination regulations study regulation and also the examination regulations answers many questions.

You can find all relevant  dates for the semester here.

You can choose from a wide range of modules and it will probably not be an easy decision. Our annotated study regulations can offer you some initial help. This should be constantly adapted and we need your help here. Feel free to download the editable annotated study regulations and send them with your changes back to us by mail. For your help we thank you very much :)