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Project House HumTec
HumTec is an interdisciplinary Project House at RWTH Aachen University funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. HumTec aims at fostering high level interdisciplinary research between the humanities/social sciences and the engineering/natural sciences.
Research at HumTec focuses on two research areas: Values, Norms, Governance and Behaviour, Communication, Acceptance. The first research area has a normative orientation comprising programmes focussing on ethical, legal, and political aspects of technological innovation. The second research area comprises programmes with a strong empirical orientation focussing on cognitive, social, linguistic, and cultural aspects of new technologies.
Seven HumTec programmes with different research topics have been specified:
- "Ethics for Energy Technology" (Head of Programme: Prof. Dr. Dr. Rafaela Hillerbrand) will tackle the global challenge of energy generation and climate change.
- "Law & Technology" (Head of Programme: PD Dr. Markus Stepanians) explores the interrelations between scientific and technological innovations and developments in philosophy and law.
- "Enhancing Mobility with Aging – Adaptive Immersive Interfaces to Personal Healthcare Systems" (Head of Programme: Prof. Dr. Martina Ziefle) will work in the field of eHealth.
- "Natural Media and Engineering: Emotion-Cognition Interactions and their Modification" (Head of Programme: Prof. Dr. Irene Mittelberg) aims at investigating the various forms of human face-to-face interaction and human-computer interaction with respect to the natural media of human communication.
- “Brain/ Concept/ Writing” (Head of Programme: Prof. Dr. Karin Herrmann) focuses on conceptualisation and text generation on the one hand as neuro-functional processes, on the other hand as a literary phenomenon.
- HUMIC (Head of Programme: Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Rudolf Mathar)
- CITY 2020+ - Engineering Life Quality for the Future - The City under Global Demographic and Climate Challenges: an interdisciplinary assessment of impacts, needs, and strategies (Heads of Programme: Prof. Ph.D. Heather Hofmeister and Prof. Dr.rer.nat. Christoph Schneider)