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Congratulations to Paul Schlosser, a student at the Institute Human-Computer-Media, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany for winning the 2018 Dieter W. Jahns Student Practitioner Award.  Paul is a Master of Science Candidate Human-Computer-Interaction.  This marks the second time that students from the Würzburg Institute won the award.  The award was presented to Paul by Professor Tobias Grundgeiger at the Institute in Germany.  The award included a $1,000 to Paul and another $1,000 to Dr. Grundgeiger’s discretionary fund.

Paul Schlosser receives the 2018 award from his mentor on the project, Dr. Tobias Grundgeiger.

Paul Schlosser completed his project in cooperation with the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, University Hospital of Würzburg.  In the project Multiple-Patient Monitoring with a Head-Worn Display: Improving Supervising Anesthetists’ Situation Awareness in the Operating Suite Paul Schlosser evaluated the potential of a head-worn display that showed multiple patients’ vital signs and alarms to allow supervising anesthetists’ to continuously monitor their patients’ status.   The objective of the project was the development and evaluation of a Head-Worn Display (HWD) based multiple-patient monitoring application for anesthetists. The HWD supported the anesthetists in developing and maintaining situation awareness.  The HWD helped the anesthetists to detect patient deterioration, to make informed decisions on treatment, to set priorities dynamically and even to check the occupancy of the ORs.  The results of the evaluation that the HWD increased anesthetists’ situation awareness.

Paul Schlosser thanked FPE for the award and stated:  “I really appreciate this prestigious honor at such an early stage of my academic career.  The award was always very impressive to me…Being the recipient of the Dieter W. Jahns Student Practitioner Award will most certainly boost my application for a position at the University of Queensland in Australia.”

The award competition had an international flavor this year with Certificates of Appreciation given to the following runner-ups:

• Sara Pazell from the University of Queensland, Australia for Good Work Design - Strategies to Embed Human‐Centred Design in Organisations.
• Husam Muslim from the University of Tsukuba, Japan for Human Factors Issues Associated with Automation Interventions in Safety-critical Situations during a Lane-change.