Ms M.Sc Maike Ramrath

Scientific employee

• 10/2022 - 09/2024 M.Sc. (with distinction)
  University of Duisburg-Essen, Applied Cognitive and Media Science (specialising in psychology), Duisburg
• 10/2019 - 07/2022 B.Sc.
  University of Duisburg-Essen, Applied Cognitive and Media Science, Duisburg

• Since 06/2025 Human Factors Researcher​​​​
  ​​Engineering and technology service provider (automotive & mobility)
• Since 10/2024 Scientific employee
  Work and Environmental Psychology (Prof. Dr M. Thielsch), University of Wuppertal
• 07/2021 - 09/2024 Research assistant
  General Psychology: Cognition (Prof. Dr M. Brand), University of Duisburg-Essen
• 07/2020 - 06/2021 Working student communication
  One of the biggest swimming clubs in Germany
• 01/2018 - 09/2019 Product Manager
  Large national media and publishing group
• 09/2015 - 01/2018 Management assistant for Digital and Print Media
  Large national media and publishing group

Articles under review

Ramrath, M., von der Linde, M., & Thielsch, M. R. (under review). Optimizing Human-Machine Interaction in High-Risk Work Environments: A Pre-registered Systematic Review.

Staab, V., Fraboni, F., Ramrath, M., & Liebherr, M. (under review). Investigating Mental Workload in Supervision of Autonomous Systems: The Role of Vigilance Task Performance, Boredom Proneness, and Need for Cognition.

Staab, V., Ramrath, M., Athanassiou, G., Bačkalov, I., & Liebherr, M. (under review). Mental Workload in the Maritime Industry: A Pre-registered Systematic Review of Influencing Factors.

Proceedings

Ramrath, M., Eisbach, S., Forthmann, B., Brau, H., & Thielsch, M. T. (2025). Form is function! Measuring the impact of product design: Presentation of the Product Aesthetics Inventory (PAI). In M. Schrepp (Ed.), Design, User Experience, and Usability (Vol. 15795, pp. 426–436). Springer Nature Switzerland.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-93224-3_27

Staab, V., Hein, I., Ramrath, M., Schlüter, L., Stuckstätte, A., Hohn, M., Sieberg, P., & Liebherr, M. (2025). Empowering trust: The role of adaptable design in AI systems. In Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA) (pp. 40–47). IEEE.
https://doi.org/10.1109/CogSIMA64436.2025.11079500

Ramrath, M., Scharmann, A., Ridder, A., Kühn, T., Weller, S., & Krämer, N. (2024). Trust in AI chatbots: The perceived expertise of ChatGPT in subjective and objective tasks. In F. Lorig, J. Tucker, A. Dahlgren Lindström, F. Dignum, P. Murukannaiah, A. Theodorou, & P. Yolum (Eds.), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. IOS Press.
https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA240200

Conference contributions (without proceedings) as a first author

Ramrath, M. (2025). When the human factor is needed: Psychological mechanisms in supervisory control and automation in high-risk work environments (Short discussion). 7th Human Factors Summer School 2025, Mainz, Germany.

Ramrath, M. (2025). Designing for safety and trust: A dissertation on critical system information in high-risk work environments (Poster). AOWI 2025, Lüneburg, Germany.

Ramrath, M., Eisbach, S., Forthmann, B., Brau, H., & Thielsch, M. T. (2025). Form is function! Benchmarks and application guidelines for the Product Aesthetics Inventory (Oral presentation). Mensch und Computer 2025, Chemnitz, Germany.

Ramrath, M., Staab, V., Fraboni, F., & Liebherr, M. (2025). Mental workload in supervising autonomous systems: Vigilance, boredom proneness, and need for cognition (Poster). Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Europe Chapter Annual Meeting 2025 (HFESE 2025), Bologna, Italy.

Ramrath, M. (2024). Impact of mental workload and situation awareness on trust and performance during the supervision of autonomous systems (Oral presentation). 6th Human Factors Summer School 2024, Braunschweig, Germany.

Ramrath, M., Theisejans, J., Haas, J., & Liebherr, M. (2023). Self-guided digital mindfulness training: A study on the implementation of strategies into everyday life (Poster). 65th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Trier, Germany.

Ramrath, M., Zerr, M., Antons, S., Brand, M., & Liebherr, M. (2022). Mindfulness and the tendency toward problematic smartphone use in adolescents (Poster). German Addiction Congress, Munich, Germany.

• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6984-8635
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maikeramrath/
• ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maike_Ramrath