Speaker: Hamraz Javaheri

Title: AI and Augmented Reality as Clinical Support Tools: From Motor Control to Clinical Cognition

When/where: Monday March 2nd, 2026 – 11h00 – Room 304

Abstract: AI and augmented reality are increasingly introduced into clinical practice as support tools, yet their roles are often discussed in isolation from the human capabilities they are meant to augment. In safety-critical medical domains, effective clinical support must address multiple layers of human performance, including visual perception, motor coordination, and clinical cognition. This talk presents a human-centered perspective on AI and AR as clinical support tools, illustrating how artificial intelligence, visualization, and usability converge to augment clinical judgment in critical domains. It further explores the benefits of symbiotic decision-making between clinicians and intelligent systems in the surgical domain.

Bio: Hamraz Javaheri is a Senior Researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Her research focuses on human-centered AI for safety-critical clinical environments, with an emphasis on cognitive and decision support tools for complex medical procedures. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, where she designed and evaluated Augmented Reality based support systems for critical medical procedures. Her recent work investigates how AI systems shape clinical cognition, decision-making, and collaboration.