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The User in the Energy System - Interfering Factor or Actor?
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Presentation (in German)
Environmental Psychology (not only) for Engineers
For the tyical engineer, human beings appear as a disruptive factor which is hard to calculate. But the tragedy is that efficiency measures only work if the user is implemented. That is why the profession of environmental psychology came into being. In the context of the lecture series "Energy in Development" it refers to the human being in the energy system, especially in the field of Man-Technics-Interaction (MTI). To get a clearer idea of this topic Prof Matthies explained the origins of this profession.
Defining Psychology: Most people think psychology would only look at behaviour that deviates from the norm. Actually, psychology is more generally defined as science of experience and behaviour. Cognition is the most general part of psychology.
Defining Environment: (how does architecture untersützt unterhaltung/kommunikation and verhindert vandalism)
what is erholung, with more concentration
To give us an example of what "environment" means to psychologists, Prof. Matthies asks us to look around and to become aware of th lecture room. It can tell us something about the social situation that we are in. The room enhances one-directional lecture. It stands for an educational tradition even if we try to create a new way of learning by organizing this lecture series, the social environmental has an inflict on our discourse.
Psychologists usually use priming experiments nowadays, but environmental psychologists want to study humans in their environment.
individual: how tall is someone? what are there fähigkeiten. what does the technics help me with? sozial/motivations was kann ich unterstützen. innovationen sind immer soziale innovationen - wie kann die diffusion nuterstütz werden
