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Klaus Bengler is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research focuses primarily on engineering and psychology, with a significant emphasis on social psychology, safety, risk, reliability and quality, as well as automotive engineering. Additional areas of study include biomedical engineering and industrial and manufacturing engineering.

The central topics in Bengler's work involve human-automation interaction and safety, traffic and road safety, safety warnings and signage, autonomous vehicle technology and safety, ergonomics and human factors, transportation and mobility innovations, and occupational health and safety research.

They have contributed numerous publications across various venues, with frequent appearances in the following:

  • AHFE international
  • Information
  • Zeitschrift für Arbeitswissenschaft
  • Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Bengler include:

  • From HMI to HMIs: Towards an HMI Framework for Automated Driving, 2020, Information
  • After you?! - Use of external human-machine interfaces in road bottleneck scenarios, 2020, Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour
  • Taking Over Control from Highly Automated Vehicles, 2021, AHFE international
  • Safety of automated driving: The need for a systems approach and application of the Functional Resonance Analysis Method, 2020, Safety Science
  • Communication via motion - Suitability of automated vehicle movements to negotiate the right of way in road bottleneck scenarios, 2021, Applied Ergonomics

Frequent collaborators in Bengler's research include:

  • Alexander Feierle
  • Bianca Biebl
  • Niklas Grabbe
  • Naomi Y. Mbelekani
  • Michael Rettenmaier

This combination of topics, venues, and collaborations reflects an interdisciplinary approach centered on understanding and improving the interaction between humans and automated or semi-automated systems in transportation contexts. Their work integrates psychological and engineering perspectives to address complex challenges related to vehicle safety, human-machine interaction, and ergonomics.

Best Publications

  • Three Decades of Driver Assistance Systems: Review and Future Perspectives

    Klaus Bengler;Klaus Dietmayer;Berthold Farber;Markus Maurer

  • “Take over!” How long does it take to get the driver back into the loop?:

    Christian Gold;Daniel Damböck;Lutz Lorenz;Klaus Bengler

  • Trust in Automation – Before and After the Experience of Take-over Scenarios in a Highly Automated Vehicle☆

    Christian Gold;Moritz Körber;Christoph Hohenberger;David Lechner

  • A human factors perspective on automated driving

    M. Kyriakidis;J.C.F. de Winter;N Stanton;T. Bellet

  • Vigilance Decrement and Passive Fatigue Caused by Monotony in Automated Driving

    Moritz Körber;Andrea Cingel;Markus Zimmermann;Klaus Bengler

  • The influence of age on the take-over of vehicle control in highly automated driving

    Moritz Körber;Christian Gold;David Lechner;Klaus Bengler

  • Modeling take-over performance in level 3 conditionally automated vehicles.

    Christian Gold;Riender Happee;Klaus Bengler

  • Towards cooperative guidance and control of highly automated vehicles: H-Mode and Conduct-by-Wire.

    Frank Ole Flemisch;Klaus Bengler;Heiner Bubb;Hermann Winner

  • Concept and development of a unified ontology for generating test and use-case catalogues for assisted and automated vehicle guidance

    Sebastian Geyer;Marcel Baltzer;Benjamin Franz;Stephan Hakuli

  • From HMI to HMIs: Towards an HMI Framework for Automated Driving

    Klaus Bengler;Michael Rettenmaier;Nicole Fritz;Alexander Feierle

  • Human Centered Assistance Applications for the working environment of the future

    Jonas Schmidtler;Verena Knott;Christin Hölzel;Klaus Bengler

  • Vibrotactile Displays: A Survey With a View on Highly Automated Driving

    Sebastiaan M. Petermeijer;Joost C. F. de Winter;Klaus J. Bengler

  • Automotive Technology and Human Factors Research: Past, Present, and Future

    Motoyuki Akamatsu;Paul Green;Klaus Bengler

  • Rolling Out the Red (and Green) Carpet: Supporting Driver Decision Making in Automation-to-Manual Transitions

    Alexander Eriksson;Sebastiaan M. Petermeijer;Markus Zimmermann;Joost C. F. de Winter

  • How the Duration of Automated Driving Influences Take-Over Performance and Gaze Behavior

    Anna Feldhütter;Christian Gold;Sonja Schneider;Klaus Bengler

  • Utilization of Drivetime – Performing Non-Driving Related Tasks While Driving Highly Automated:

    Christian Gold;Ilirjan Berisha;Klaus Bengler

  • Ubernahmezeiten beim hochautomatisierten Autofahren

    Daniel Damböck;M. Farid;L. Tönert;Klaus Bengler

  • Eye Gaze Studies Comparing Head-Up and Head-Down Displays in Vehicles

    M. Ablassmeier;T. Poitschke;F. Wallhoff;K. Bengler

  • Evaluation of in-vehicle HMI using occlusion techniques: experimental results and practical implications.

    Michele Baumann;Andreas Keinath;Josef F. Krems;Klaus Bengler

  • Understanding and Applying the Concept of “Driver Availability” in Automated Driving

    Claus Marberger;Holger Mielenz;Frederik Naujoks;Jonas Radlmayr

  • Taking Over Control from Highly Automated Vehicles

    C. Gold;Klaus Bengler

Frequent Co-Authors

Josef F. Krems
Josef F. Krems Chemnitz University of Technology
Christoph Stiller
Christoph Stiller Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Joost C. F. de Winter
Joost C. F. de Winter Delft University of Technology
Klaus Dietmayer
Klaus Dietmayer University of Ulm
Geert Wets
Geert Wets Hasselt University
Neville A. Stanton
Neville A. Stanton University of Southampton
Albrecht Schmidt
Albrecht Schmidt Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Daniel Straub
Daniel Straub Technical University of Munich
Alexander Pretschner
Alexander Pretschner Technical University of Munich

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