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Contribution at ICRA 2025
The 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) will take place on May 19-23, 2025, in Atlanta, USA. Our Chair will be represented with the contribution “Designing Workplace Robots: A Game for Automation and Augmentation Strategies in Construction” to the 4th Workshop on Future of Construction: Safe, Reliable, and Precise Robots in Construction Environments, by Sihui Wu, Kim N. Helmersen, and Gudela Grote.
Invitation to a debate on artificial intelligence (AI)
This event is organized by our chair in collaboration with the Debate Club Zürich, the Student Association of ETH Zürich (VSETH), the Student Association of the University of Zürich (VSUZH), and our Chair of Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP). The debate will follow a British Parliament–style format, and will center on the question: “Should Companies Compensate Victims of Artificial Intelligence?”
Date/Time: Thursday, May 15, 2025, 18:30h
Location: ETH LEE E101
From May 21 to 24, 2025, the European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology will hold their 23st congress in Prague, Czech Republic. We are happy to announce that our chair is represented with several contributions:
In HR Today, Gudela Grote explains what HR and good leadership can do in times of crisis due to geopolitical tensions, trade turmoil and wars. (Article in German only)
The article "Older workers' knowledge seeking from younger coworkers: Disentangling countervailing pathways to successful aging at work" by Julian Pfrombeck, Anne Burmeister and Gudela Grote in Journal of Organizational Behavior has been recognized as top viewed article among work published in this journal in 2023 up to 12 months after publication. Congratulations to the authors!
This workshop taking place in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany, from March 24 to 26, 2025, offers a platform for networking, collaboration building, and topical exchange for early-career researchers working on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of work and organizational psychology/human factors/management and computer science, likely augmented with philosophical, ethical, and legal perspectives.
We are reaching out to AI companies that seek to establish themselves as leaders in promoting responsible AI. We aim to understand AI developers' design mindsets and the working conditions conducive to a proactive while also reflective approach to addressing AI's opportunities and challenges. Thereby, companies can be supported in gaining competitive advantage in ways that address both their technical and social responsibilities.
In today's fast-paced world of work, uncertainty is a constant companion. From technological advancements to changing market dynamics, it is something we all face daily. Rather than fearing uncertainty, what if we could harness its potential?
The chair received funding by the Mobility Initiative for the research project “Designing explainable ML-based systems for collaborative work in the railways” in collaboration with Siemens Mobility and the Swiss National Railways, and doctoral student Lena Schneider working on it. It started in Sepember 2022 and runs for 36 months. For this project we are hiriing a Postdoctoral Researcher. See add here:
The chair of Work and Organizational Psychology invites to a summer school on uncertainty at work in Ascona, Switzerland, from June 18 to 23, 2023. Deadline for a delaration of interest is November 1st, 2022, and should be sent to uncertaintysummerschool@ethz.ch. Link to conference page: