KD²Lab

Decision and Design Lab Karlsruhe

(since 2011)

Human decision making is conventionally a central research focus of different scientific disciplines. Scientific evidence highlights that human decisions are the product of a complex interaction of rational and emotional processes.

The "Karlsruhe Decision & Design Lab" (KD2Lab) offers the opportunity to study these interactions in a structured and comprehensive manner. It is a 40-unit experimental lab fully equipped to capture and process a large variety of biosignals (fNIRS, EEG, EMG, EDA, Motion, Video, Speech) to study human-machine interfaces and operates on equal footing with the worldwide leading research institutions CMU, Harvard, LMU and MIT.

It enables a smooth transfer from isolated lab environments to real world situations by providing or developing equipment and psychophysiological instrumentation and processes, capturing cognitive and emotional states of the participants and by analysing the influence of these states on human decision making (Decision) in various lab environments and decision scenarios (Design institutions undhuman machine interfaces).

Partners: Profs. Christof Weinhardt (Speaker), Tanja Schultz (Co-Speaker), Albers / Matthiesen, Berninghaus / Ehrhart, Ebner-Priemer, Hey, Puppe, Satzger, Seifert, Stork.

Funded by German Research Foundation, Major Research Instrumentation, since 2011.