Lara Watermann, M.Sc.

Lara

Research Associate

Contact:

Max-von-Laue-Straße 1
28359 Bremen, Germany
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Career

Current Position

from 01/2023  - 03/2024     University of Bremen, Germany

                                          Research Associate (PhD student)

                                           in the Diginomics Research Group

 

Previous Positions 

02/2021-12/2022         University of Bremen, Germany

                                          Student Assistant INTERTEAM-Project         

Education

2020-2022           University of Bremen, Germany

                               Master of Science in Business Psychology

               

2019-2020           University of Twente, Netherlands

                               Master of Science in Positive Psychology 

                              

2016-2019           University of Twente, Netherlands

                               Bachelor of Science in Psychology

Graduate Group

Lara Watermann is part of the Graduate Group Digitization of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Bremen.

The Graduate Group investigates current economic issues concerning the Digitization of labor, financial, and product markets. Twelve projects deal with ethical, socio-political, industrial-psychological, economic and policy-relevant issues relating to new digital markets. The content of the projects includes questions related to Work 4.0, Blockchain, Digital Finance, Artificial Intelligence and Platform Economics. 

Lara Watermann is working on a project relating to Human Machine Interaction and Workforce-Analytics as part of the graduate group.

 

Teamwork in a Mars habitat

Lara Watermann is a member of the project team "Team performance of human-human and human-agent teams in a Mars habitat under various scenarios".

As part of the 3-part seed project on "The living Habitat" within the MAPEX cluster initiative "Researching pathways toward a long-term sustainable, ethically acceptable human settlement of Mars" and in cooperation with ZARM and Sustainable Communication Networks, the project "Team performance in extreme environments" investigates how human users integrate into the technological environment of the habitat on Mars and how their team processes and performance can be improved by adaptations of the technological environment and in cooperation with an artificial intelligence.

 

Memberships

The German Psychological Society (DGPs): Division of Industrial, Organizational, and Business Psychology 

Publications

Peer-reviewed Journals

Hagemann, V., Watermann, L., Klonek, F. & Heinicke, C. (2023). Communication quality affects performance of astronauts and support teams through increased workload: Insights from the AMADEE-20 analog Mars mission, Acta Astronautica, 210, 162-175. doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2023.05.021

Conference contributions

Watermann, L., Cadonau, L., Appelganc, K., Große Maestrup, P., Band, S., Förster, A., Heinicke, C., Hagemann, V. (2023). Mensch-KI Teams in einem Mars Habitat: Der Einfluss der Wahrnehmung einer KI als Teammitglied oder Werkzeug auf Vertrauen und Affekt. Vortrag bei der 13. Tagung der Fachgruppe Arbeits-, Organisations- und Wirtschaftspsychologie (AOW) gemeinsam mit der Fachgruppe Ingenieurpsychologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Kassel, Deutschland.

Watermann, L., Hagemann, V. & Heinicke, C. (2022). The mediated effect of communication on team performance in interdependently working teams during a simulated Mars Mission. Vortrag beim 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Deutschland.

Hagemann, V., Watermann, L. & Heinicke, C. (2022). The interaction of Teamwork Processes, Collective Orientation and Stress during a simulated Mars Mission in the Crew and Support Teams. Vortrag beim 52. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs) in Hildesheim, Deutschland.

Hagemann, V., Watermann, L. & Heinicke, C. (2022). Development of Teamwork Processes, Collective Orientation and Stress during a simulated Mars Mission in the Crew and Support Teams. Talk at the Annual Meeting of the HFES Europe Chapter, 20-22 April, Turin, Italy.