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Professorship Predictive Analytics
Prädiktive Verhaltensanalyse

Jenny Rettstatt

Portrait: M.Sc. Jenny Rettstatt
M.Sc. Jenny Rettstatt
  • Phone:
    +49 371 531-34228
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  • Address:
    Reichenhainer Straße 41, 09126 Chemnitz
  • Room:
    C47.506 (prev. 2/41/506)
  • Office Hours:
    Please make an appointment by e-mail or telephone.

Research Interests

  • Conditional and Syllogistic Reasoning
  • Predictive and Cognitive Modeling
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Psychohypsis (specifically eye-tracking)
  • Knowledge representations

CV

Professional Experience

  • Since 03/2023: Research Assistant, TU Chemnitz, Professorship of Predictive Analytics
  • 04/2021 - 02/2023: Student Research Assistant, TU Chemnitz, Professorship of Production Systems and Processes
  • 04/2019 - 09/2020: Student Research Assistant, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen

Education and Qualifications

  • 09/2020 - 02/2023: M.Sc. Sensory and cognitive psychology, TU Chemnitz
  • 08/2017 - 08/2020: B.Sc. Cognitive sciences, Eberhard-Karls University Tübingen

Projects

  • FADEp. Intentional forgetting and changes in work processes: A process conditional-oriented approach in an administrative and IT context. [Website]
  • Freiraum 2022: MeMo: Strengthening students' metacognition and motivation through individualized smart personal assistants [Website]

Teaching

  • SS 2024: Assistant, Seminar Cognitive Systems- Predictive Behavior Analysis in Human-Technology Interaction
  • SS 2024: Assistant, Cognitive modeling - Exercise , TU Chemnitz
  • WS 2023/24: Assistant, Introduction to programming with Python - Exercise, TU Chemnitz
  • SS 2020: Assistant, Computer-based statistics, Eberhard- Karls University Tübingen 
  • SS 2019: Tutor, Computer-based statistics, Eberhard- Karls University Tübingen 
 

Publications

  • Rettstatt, J., Brand, D., & Ragni, M. (2024). Breaking Focus: The impact of disruptive distractions on academic task performance. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.),Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the CognitiveScience Society. 4470-4477 [PDF]
  • Liu, Y.H., Nürnberger, A., Rettstatt, J.,& Ragni, M. (2024). Saccadic Eye Movements and Search Task Difficulty as Basis of Modelling User Knowledge in Information Seeking. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.),Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the CognitiveScience Society. 2112-2120 [PDF]
  • Schmitz, M., Rettstatt, J., Suren, M., Brand, D., Seemann, M., Ragni, M. & Rey, G.R. (2024). Feedback on study time and distraction-free learning environment. Proceedings of the Spotlight on Language Teaching: Digital Feedback in Research and Practice International Conference.

Talks and Poster Presentations

  • "Breaking Focus: The impact of disruptive distractions on academic task performance" @ 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 2024. [poster]
  • "Saccadic Eye Movements and Search Task Difficulty as Basis of Modelling User Knowledge in Information Seeking" @ 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 2024. [poster]
  • "MeMo - Feedback on study time and distraction free learning environment " @ Spotlight on Language Teaching: Digital Feedback in Research and Practice. Chemnitz, Germany, June 2023. [slides]

Supervised Theses

  • "The influence of unanticipated distractions and personality on performance in spatial reasoning tasks"
    Leon Cantow (Bachelor thesis, Sensoric and cognitive psychology, 2024)