Gotowa bibliografia na temat „Small College Consortium”

To transform undergraduate biology education, faculty need to provide opportunities for students to engage in the process of science. The rise of research approaches using next-generation (NextGen) sequencing has been impressive, but incorporation of such approaches into the undergraduate curriculum remains a major challenge. In this paper, we report proceedings of a National Science Foundation–funded workshop held July 11–14, 2011, at Juniata College. The purpose of the workshop was to develop a regional research coordination network for undergraduate biology education (RCN/UBE). The network is collaborating with a genome-sequencing core facility located at Pennsylvania State University (University Park) to enable undergraduate students and faculty at small colleges to access state-of-the-art sequencing technology. We aim to create a database of references, protocols, and raw data related to NextGen sequencing, and to find innovative ways to reduce costs related to sequencing and bioinformatics analysis. It was agreed that our regional network for NextGen sequencing could operate more effectively if it were partnered with the Genome Consortium for Active Teaching (GCAT) as a new arm of that consortium, entitled GCAT-SEEK(quence). This step would also permit the approach to be replicated elsewhere.

Alternative hullforms such as multihulls may allow small vessels to deliver levels of performance normally associated with a far larger and more costly monohull vessel. This article describes a research program on alternative hullforms being undertaken by a consortium of six universities and academic institutions. As well as reviewing the current research program, this article discusses in detail the contribution being made by University College London (UCL): tools for undertaking the comparison and exploration of the monohull, trimaran, and Trimaran Small Waterplane Area Center Hull (TriSWACH) alternatives. These tools combine the modeling and analysis capabilities of an existing naval architecture design package with a varied range of search and optimization techniques to enable the exploration of alternative ship design solutions. This article presents the initial results obtained from tools that are currently under development at UCL. Such tools can be applied to identify and explore key topics related to the trimaran and TriSWACH hullforms when compared with a baseline mono hull configuration. The trimaran hullform has significant potential for small fast combatants as demonstrated by the U.S. Navy's LCS program. The TriSWACH hullform (with a small waterplane area center hull stabilized by two outriggers) is of interest because it offers the potential for improved seakeeping performance.

Objectives – This study examines what factors are considered by college and university libraries in Indiana when making the decision to cancel subscriptions to print journals when an electronic equivalent is available. The study also looks at who the primary decision makers are in this regard. Libraries at public and private institutions of varying sizes were included in the study. Methods – An online survey was sent to seventy-three libraries in the consortium, Academic Libraries of Indiana. Structured interviews with administrators at nine libraries were also conducted. Results – Academic libraries in Indiana use subscription cost, redundancy of formats, student preference, budget reductions and usage as the primary factors in canceling print journal subscriptions in favor of their electronic counterparts. There is also a preference for the electronic format for new subscriptions even when a print version is also available. Conclusions – The study indicates that subscription cost is the most important consideration in the journal cancelation process with other factors also having an effect on the preference of libraries for electronic versions of journals. The study also shows that libraries at public and private colleges and universities are at different stages of moving away from print to an online-only journal format. At the same time, there is consensus that a small collection of print titles will still be needed. The primary decision-makers are librarians, faculty, and library administrators.

Background Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO2)—oxygen at pressures higher than atmospheric—is approved for 14 indications by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society. HBO2’s main effect is to increase oxygen content in plasma and body tissues, which can counteract hypoxia or ischemia. Laboratory studies show that HBO2 has effects beyond relieving hypoxia (eg, promoting angiogenesis in irradiated tissue, anti-inflammatory effects, radiosensitization of tumors, hypoxia preconditioning, and fungal growth inhibition) and has potential to treat conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease and pyoderma gangrenosum. Lack of consistently collected outcome data on a large cohort of individuals receiving HBO2 therapy limits its use for both established and new indications. A course of therapy often involves 30-40 visits to a hyperbaric chamber, so the number of patients seen at any given center is constrained by chamber capacity. As a result, published HBO2 outcome data tend to be from small case series because few patients with a particular condition are treated at a given center. To solve this problem, a registry that collects and pools data systematically from multiple institutions has been established. Objective The aim of this study is to collect consistent outcome data across multiple hyperbaric centers to assess treatment effectiveness and establish a research consortium. Methods A consortium of hyperbaric centers who have agreed to collect consistent outcome data on all patients seen has been assembled. Data are collected at each participating center using Research Electronic Data Capture (REDCap), a web-based, data collection system used frequently for research. Standard outcome measures have been defined for each condition, which are programmed into the REDCap data collection templates. Governance is through a consortium agreement that defines data security, data sharing, publications, liability, and other issues. Centers obtain Institutional Review Board (IRB) and ethics approval to participate, either from their own institutions or by relying on the IRB at the coordinating center at Dartmouth College. Dissemination will occur through a yearly report and by publications based on the data in the registry. Results Early results from some common indications show significant pretreatment to posttreatment changes. Additional indications and outcome measures are being added using the procedures outlined in the consortium agreement. Conclusions The registry collects consistent outcome information for a therapy that needs further study and a stronger evidence base. It also overcomes the challenge of collecting data from an adequate number of patients for both established and emerging indications by combining data collection from multiple centers. The data entry requirements should be within the capabilities of existing staff at any given hyperbaric center. By using REDCap, the registry can be expanded to include detailed information on particular indications and long-term follow-up on selected patients without significantly increasing the basic data entry requirements. Through the registry, a network of enrolled hyperbaric centers has been established that provides the basis for a clinical trial network. International Registered Report Identifier (IRRID) DERR1-10.2196/18857

A Review of: Galoozis, E. (2019). Affective aspects of instruction librarians’ decisions to adopt new teaching practices: Laying the groundwork for incremental change. College & Research Libraries, 80(7), 1036–1050. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.80.7.1036 Abstract Objective – To investigate the correlation between emotional and affective labour and instruction librarians’ willingness to adopt and implement novel teaching and educational practices. Design – Semi-structured interview, grounded theory. Setting – Academic libraries in the Greater Western Library Alliance consortium. Subjects – 12 information literacy librarians from the Greater Western Library Alliance consortium of 38 research libraries from the US. Methods – In 2016, the author shared a call for study participants in the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA) consortium, selected a convenience sample of 12 information literacy instruction (ILI) librarians, and conducted a structured interview over Adobe Connect, a virtual video-interviewing tool. Interview transcripts underwent initial thematic coding using a grounded theory approach. Additionally, the author used Walker and Symons’ theories of motivation to code interview responses related to emotional and affective labour. Main Results – The author identified three thematic categories in the interview transcripts: barriers and influences for adopting new teaching practices, and practices implemented by ILI librarians. The author mapped these response themes to Walker and Symons’ (1997) conditions of human motivation: autonomy, competency, feedback, affirmation, and setting meaningful goals. Some major barriers to adopting new teaching practices are burnout and emotional exhaustion due to understaffing, time demands, the sheer quantity of instruction sessions, and the lack of post-instruction feedback to reinforce pedagogical decisions. A sense of competency, autonomy, and support when designing library instruction sessions encourages librarians to adopt new teaching practices. The author explored what practices ILI librarians applied to implement new teaching practices. Having plenty of time to prepare prior to an instruction session encourages ILI librarians to build new teaching practices into sessions. The respondents noted that building relationships with faculty, students, and library colleagues enables them to receive helpful feedback. Conclusion – Though there is some correlation between affective and emotional labour and the motivation of ILI librarians to adopt and implement new teaching practices, the author notes that the results are not generalizable to a larger context based on the small sample size. It is clear there are many opportunities to investigate other factors that impact librarian motivation and emotional labour including the dynamics of race, gender identity, and disability, or the managerial and structural factors and workplace culture that impede or facilitate the adoption of new teaching practices.

Annual electronic journal usage data for the NorthEast Research Library (NERL) consortium was analyzed for 2000 and 2001 for the Academic Press IDEAL aggregate package. Patterns indicated a high degree of skew in use of the journal collection: a small number of journals formed the majority of total use. Each institution illustrated a unique usage pattern, with some institutions using (proportionally) more or less of the collection. No institution used every title, and some titles were used very infrequently by the consortium as a whole. Title ranking showed high congruence between 2000 and 2001. Titles not subscribed in print received about ten times less use than locally subscribed titles. Cluster analysis revealed three distinct groups of institutions based on use of the journal package: large research institutions, medical institutions, and smaller liberal arts colleges and polytechnic institutes. Student enrollment is a good predictor of total usage, with medical institutions being an exception. It is recommended that institutions consider their consortial membership and organize themselves into groups of homogenous institutions with similar missions.

Objective:To examine relationships between history of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), neuropsychological measures of executive function, and lifetime history of criminal justice (CJ) involvement among combat-exposed Veterans and Service Members (V/SM).Participants and Methods:Participants were combat-exposed V/SM who completed a baseline assessment for the multicenter Long-term Impact of Military-Relevant Brain Injury Consortium - Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium study (N=1,341) and had adequate engagement/symptom reporting on measures of performance and symptom validity (i.e., Medical Symptom Validity Test and Mild Brain Injury Atypical Symptoms Scale). Neuropsychological battery included the Trail Making Test (A and B), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV (WAIS-IV) Digit Span subtest, and the National Institute of Health (NIH) Toolbox Flanker subtest. Lifetime history of brain injury, criminal justice involvement, and demographics were collected. Participants were 87% male, 72% white, with a mean age of 40 years (SD=9.67). Eighty-one percent had at least some college education. Nineteen percent were active duty. Eighty percent of Veterans and 86% of Service Members reported a history of >1 mTBI, and of these 31% and 47% respectively experienced 3+ mTBIs.Results:Three groups were composed based on level of involvement with the CJ system: 1.) No history of arrests or incarcerations (3+ mTBIs: 64%), 2.) A lifetime history of arrest but no felony incarceration (3+ mTBIs: 34%), and 3.) A lifetime history of felony incarceration (3+ mTBIs: 2%). Ordinal regression analyses revealed that performance on a working memory task (Digit Span; b= 0.024, p= .041; OR= 1.024) was significantly associated with increased CJ involvement after adjusting for age, education, service status, and mTBIs. Performance on measures of processing speed (Trails A), set-shifting (Trails B), and inhibition (Flanker) were not significantly associated with CJ involvement. Number of mTBIs was significantly and positively associated with level of CJ involvement in all four models; Digit Span (p= .016), Trails A (p= .016), Trails B (p= .020), and Flanker (p= .008).Conclusions:Performance on most measures of executive functioning was not significantly associated with CJ involvement in this large, representative sample of V/SM who served in combat. Although performance on a working memory task was significantly associated with CJ involvement, the size of the effect was small and the association was in the opposite direction as expected. Number of mTBIs was significantly associated with level of CJ involvement, indicating that sustaining multiple mTBI may be linked to greater risk of CJ involvement. These findings suggest that social and psychological factors beyond executive dysfunction may better explain the relationship between history mTBIs and CJ involvement. Some aspects of military service and veteran status, such as interdisciplinary treatment for brain injury and physical, mental, and psychosocial health needs, may be protective against previously identified risk factors for arrest (e.g., deficits in executive functioning). Contextualizing mTBI within the larger behavioral health profile of V/SM, with emphasis placed on intervention for related co-morbidities, may reduce the impact of previous arrest on wellbeing and/or reduce the risk of future CJ involvement.

This paper describes a collaborative approach taken by librarians at five small, regional liberal arts colleges to developing/enhancing research data management services on their campuses. The five colleges collectively belong to a consortium known as the Northwest Five Consortium. Over 10 months, librarians from the five schools collaborated to plan a data management and curation workshop with the goals of developing relationships with researchers working with data, developing their own research data management skills and services, and building a model for future training and outreach around institutional research data management services. This workshop brought together research teams including faculty, students, and librarians, and incorporated active learning modules as well as in-depth pre-workshop discussion. This article will discuss the context and background for this workshop, the model itself, and the outcomes and possibilities for future developments.

Harvey S. Levin obtained his Bachelor’s degree from City College of New York, in New York city, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, completed his internships in Clinical Neuropsychology and Pediatric Psychology at the University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City and Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Pediatrics at the Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago, and his fellowship in Neuropsychology at University of Iowa Hospitals in Iowa City.Dr. Levin started his career in 1972 as Instructor with the Department of Psychology at the University of Iowa and transitioned to The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas, in 1974, where he began an internationally renowned career in clinical work, teaching, and, most of all, pioneering research on traumatic brain injury (TBI). He ultimately became the Chela and Jimmy Storm Distinguished Professor in Surgical Research, Division of Neurosurgery, Department of Surgery in 1987. After leaving Texas for two years to take a position with the University of Maryland Medical System and Shock Trauma Institute in Baltimore, he moved back to Houston Texas in 1995 and established the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory (CNL) within the Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine, which was supported by federal grants, including funding from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and numerous private foundations. The CNL integrated rehabilitation and neuroplasticity research with multimodality brain imaging, clinical and neuropsychological assessment, and fluid biomarkers. Dr. Levin was Professor with the Departments of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation where he served as Director of Research (1995-2014), Pediatrics, and Neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine. He was also a Research Scientist and the Director of the Center of Excellence for Traumatic Brain Injury at the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center (2008-2013), and Adjunct Professor with the Department of Psychology at Rice University in Houston, Texas.Dr. Levin’s research focused on investigating both acute and long-term outcomes of mild to severe TBI in civilian and military populations, including cognitive and behavioral sequelae in relation to neuropathology using advanced brain imaging modalities. He began prospective, longitudinal studies of adults and children who had sustained TBI associated with closed head trauma upon joining UTMB and developed, in collaboration with Drs O’Donnell and Grossman, the Galveston Orientation and Amnesia Test (GOAT). The GOAT was the first measure to assess post-traumatic amnesia and orientation following moderate to severe TBI, is still most widely used by the clinicians and researchers, and it has been translated to 16 languages. The original publication, “Levin HS, O’Donnell VM, Grossman RG. The Galveston Orientation and Amnesia Test. A practical scale to assess cognition after head injury. J Nerv Ment Dis. 1979 Nov;167(11):675-84. doi: 10.1097/00005053-197911000-00004. PMID: 501342”, has over 1200 citations. This work continued with participation in the NINDS Traumatic Coma Data Bank and the organization of outcome assessments for NINDS-funded clinical trials of hypothermia to treat severe TBI. To monitor the quality of outcome data across performing sites, Dr. Levin and colleagues developed a code for the reliability of data collected and implemented the role of an outcome monitor who evaluated adherence to protocol across sites. Following establishment of the CNL, he pursued investigation of TBI outcomes across the lifespan using multimodality brain imaging and biomarkers, errorless learning, translational studies in collaboration with neuroscientists using animal models, and clinical trials of methylphenidate, progesterone, CDP-choline. Dr. Levin spent over 30 years researching neurobehavioral outcomes of head injury in children, starting with a small pilot study funded by the Shriners Hospital in 1991 and continuing with several cycles of a multicenter R01 grant funded by the National Institute of Health. In later years, he used his expertise as a member of several large consortiums, including the Long-term Impact of Military-Relevant Brain Injury Consortium \ Chronic Effects of Neurotrauma Consortium (LIMBIC-CENC) funded by the VA and DoD and the Transforming Research and Clinical Knowledge in Traumatic Brain Injury (TRACK-TBI) funded by the NINDS.During his career, Dr. Levin authored and coauthored more than 400 articles in scientific journals and over 100 books, with one of them, “Levin, H. S., Benton, A. L., & Grossman, R. G. (1982). Neurobehavioral consequences of closed head injury. Oxford University Press, USA”, having over 1100 citation, as well as book chapters that advanced knowledge of TBI, epilepsy, neurodegenerative diseases, and other illnesses that affect brain functioning. He was also very active as a reviewer on federal grant panels and as an editor and reviewer for the Journal of Neurotrauma, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Neuropsychology, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, Lancet, JAMA, Pediatrics, and other top-cited journals. He served as president of the International Neuropsychological Society in 1989-1990. Dr. Levin was a recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, the Jennett-Plum Award for Research on Traumatic Brain Injury, the Distinguished Career Award by the International Neuropsychological Society, the American Congress of Rehabilitation Gold Key Award, the Distinguished Lifetime Contribution to Neuropsychology Award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology, as well as awards from other head injury and psychological organizations, including the International Brain Injury Association, the National Head Injury Foundation, the North American Brain Injury Society, Texas Psychological Association, and the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center. In addition to his stellar scientific accomplishments, Dr. Levin trained, mentored, and provided supervision to interns, fellows, postdocs, residents, medical and psychology students. He was the Director of an NCMRR/NIH T32 Postdoctoral Research Program, and training supervisor in neuropsychology for Baylor College of Medicine and for the Memorial Hermann TIRR Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Programs. A passionate educator, he taught classes at Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Houston, and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School in Greece and served as an evaluator for the American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology/American Board of Professional Psychology. He was often invited as a lecturer at numerous scientific organizations.The main objective of this symposium is to provide an overview of the current state of research in TBI while highlighting Dr. Levin’s contributions to this field. The symposium will start with a brief overview of Dr. Levin’s career (Dr. Randall S. Scheibel), followed by presentations focused on the assessment of adult TBI, including posttraumatic amnesia (Dr. Felicia C. Goldstein), the current state of pediatric TBI (Dr. L. Ewing-Cobbs), and novel imaging in TBI (Dr. Erin D. Bigler). There will be a brief discussion session at the end lead by Dr. Elisabeth A. Wilde.

A Review of: Belliston, C. Jeffrey, Jared L. Howland, & Brian C. Roberts. “Undergraduate Use of Federated Searching: A Survey of Preferences and Perceptions of Value-Added Functionality.” College & Research Libraries 68.6 (Nov. 2007): 472-86. Objective – To determine whether use of federated searching by undergraduates saves time, meets their information needs, is preferred over searching databases individually, and provides results of higher quality. Design – Crossover study. Setting – Three American universities, all members of the Consortium of Church Libraries & Archives (CCLA): BYU (Brigham Young University, a large research university); BYUH (Brigham Young University – Hawaii, a small baccalaureate college); and BYUI (Brigham Young University – Idaho, a large baccalaureate college) Subjects – Ninety-five participants recruited via e-mail invitations sent to a random sample of currently enrolled undergraduates at BYU, BYUH, and BYUI. Methods – Participants were given written directions to complete a literature search for journal articles on two biology-related topics using two search methods: 1. federated searching with WebFeat® (implemented in the same way for this study at the three universities) and 2. a hyperlinked list of databases to search individually. Both methods used the same set of seven databases. Each topic was assigned in random order to one of the two search methods, also assigned in random order, for a total of two searches per participant. The time to complete the searches was recorded. Students compiled their list of citations, which were later normalized and graded. To analyze the quality of the citations, one quantitative rubric was created by librarians and one qualitative rubric was approved by a faculty member at BYU. The librarian-created rubric included the journal impact factor (from ISI’s Journal Citation Reports®), the proportion of citations from peer-reviewed journals (determined from Ulrichsweb.com™) to total citations, and the timeliness of the articles. The faculty-approved rubric included three criteria: relevance to the topic, quality of the individual citations (good quality: primary research results, peer-reviewed sources), and number of citations. Data were then analysed using ANOVA and MANOVA. Finally, librarians at the ACRL 13th National Conference Presentation were polled about their perceptions of the time savings of federated searching, whether the method meets undergraduates’ information needs, undergraduate preference for searching, and the quality of citations found. Main Results – Seventy percent of all participants preferred federated searching. For all schools combined, there was no statistically significant difference between the average time taken using federated searching (20.34 minutes) vs. non-federated searching (22.72 minutes). For all schools combined, there was a statistically significant difference in satisfaction of results favouring federated searching (5.59/7 vs. 4.80/7 for non-federated searching, α = .05). According to the librarian-created rubric, citations retrieved from federated searching were a statistically significant 6% lower in quality than citations retrieved from non-federated searching (α = .05). The faculty-approved rubric did not detect a difference in the quality of the citations retrieved using the 2 methods. Librarians’ perceptions as assessed at the ACRL 13th National Conference Presentation generally matched the authors’ findings. Conclusion – Overall, students in this study preferred federated searching, were more satisfied with the results of federated searching, and saved time (although the savings were not statistically significant). The quality of citations retrieved via both methods was judged to be similar. The study provides useful information for librarians interested in users’ experiences and perceptions of federated searching, and indicates future studies worth conducting.

This study focuses on an examination of students and faculty perceptions or library use and seeks to determine if faculty consider library use for class activities a requirement. In order to accomplish this objective, this query was designed to assess library use and perceptions by the clientele of two diverse educational institutions in Sitka, Alaska. The clientele studied included students and full-time teaching faculty at Islands Community College and Sheldon Jackson College. Both institutions are served by a common library facility. The population was defined as the students and full-time teaching faculty who were enrolled or employed by the colleges during the spring of 1988. The sample included 100 students and 31 faculty from the two institutions who responded to surveys. A review of related literature showed much concern and interest in library user studies, but no evaluation of the nonuser. This report describes the results of the spring 1988 survey of student and faculty users and nonusers of collections and services at Stratton Library. User frequency, composition of user clienteles, preferred media format, and users’ perceptions of services offered are described. A brief history of the consortium setting is also provided. Since this investigation dealt with the response of clientele of two institutions using a joint facility and employed a strategy for gaining perceptions from nonusers, new knowledge concerning evaluation of library use and perceptions studies was obtained. Because no control of the population was possible, survey format was used and students in English classes from both institutions were given a 34-item self-reporting questionnaire. Similar instruments were mailed to full-time teaching faculty. Because data in this descriptive study can only describe the subjects and institutions involved in the study, no inferential statistics were reported. However, appropriate descriptive statistics, frequency counts, percentages and cross-tabulations were obtained for the respondents of each institution and tables were developed to allow a search for similarities and difference in the respondents were similar in their perceptions of library use and their perceptions of the helpfulness of the library staff; similar in their preference of materials format. They were dissimilar in their perception of the adequacy of library services for their expressed needs. The responses on the written survey indicated that students and faculty do, to some extent, use Stratton Library. However, based on the results of the recent study, more emphasis is needed on making users and potential users more aware of the services.

Abstract My first trip to Poland under Mellon auspices was in October 1990. In Hungary, I most often traveled by train because of the excellent intercity trains that connect Budapest with the larger provincial cities. In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, I sometimes drove a rented car or took a plane. In Poland, the distances are large, my itinerary often made trains impractical, and on most trips I rented a car with a driver for a geographically clockwise tour that would start in Warsaw and carry me to some or all of Lublin, Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk, Toruń, and back to Warsaw. As I started to meet with university as well as government officials, I soon realized that there was a substantial style difference between the Hungarians and the Poles on the one hand, and the Czechs and the Slovaks on the other. The Hungarians and Poles tended to be informal: discussions took place around a table over coffee, and they had the air of conversations. In the Czech Republic and in Slovakia, comparable events were often (but by no means always) very formal. The “locals” would sit on one side of a long rectangular table and I (or I and a colleague if I was accompanied) would sit along the other side; occasionally our side of the table would fly a small American flag while the other side would fly the appropriate local flag. There would be no conversation on such occasions, but speeches would be made: an opening sally by the home team, a reply by me, and so on; this might end with a ritual glass of brandy, even if it was 10 o’clock in the morning. There was one issue associated with making library automation grants that I did not really have to face in Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, namely what difference it makes whether the software system is or is not already selected by the library at the time that the grant is awarded. In Hungary, I did not have to deal with integrated automated library systems, and in the other two countries the oversight provided by Andrew Lass insured that the preparatory work was scrupulously careful and detailed, even if the final decision had not yet been made. The advantages of having the software decision made early was that the cost of the system could be known with greater precision and that the library would have had to do all its homework before the grant was awarded.

While automation is already well advanced in series production, manual production is still used for small batch sizes and multi-variant production. However, such workplaces also need to be modernized to produce not only economically but also sustainably. Improving ergonomic working conditions poses a challenge for work research: how can data-based assistance systems provide employees with recommendations on favourable work design while considering the tight legal framework regarding the collection of biometric data? A consortium of labour researchers from five colleges and universities, six network partners and more than 30 companies are working on this and other questions in the context of the introduction of AI solutions in the PerspektiveArbeit Lausitz structural change project (PAL). The declared aim is to support the transformation of the Lusatia coal mining region by enabling small and medium-sized enterprises to drive forward digitalization and use simple human-centred AI solutions to make work more people-friendly, thereby increasing their competitiveness and flexibility.The prototype is to be implemented at an electronics service provider with manual PCB production. In collaboration with Mittweida University of Applied Sciences, an application is being developed to improve activity-related ergonomics at the workplace. Visual sensors at and around the workplace will capture images that are compared with data from standards, guidelines, and ergonomics methods in real time to provide a direct message at the workplace in case of negative stress (e.g. forced posture, one-sided strain, gripping space). The video-supported analysis is intended to help identify and correct ergonomically critical movement sequences and avoid them in the long term to maintain the health of employees.Mittweida University of Applied Sciences develops an application to improve ergonomics by using visual sensors to record and evaluate ergonomic factors. The video-supported analysis is intended to identify ergonomically critical movement sequences and avoid them.It is important to not only "get employees on board” in this process from the outset in the sense of "informing" them, but to "involve" them in the implementation of the project to be able to incorporate their expertise into the development and to increase acceptance of the planned project. This is because AI applications that process personal data are regulated by the GDPR and soon also by the European Union's AI Regulation, which is expected for 2024. The Works Constitution Act (§87) must also be observed. It stipulates an economical and dedicated data collection and the avoidance of unnecessary data. What exactly needs to be considered when processing personal data using AI systems and what specific technical solution the assistance system provides to protect sensitive biometric data - this content is conveyed to the employees in awareness workshops