The 21st century is characterised by globalisation, turbulent change, an information explosion and an electronic revolution. The result is organisations with decentralised structures, increased employee empowerment and growth alliances. This changing landscape calls for a more holistic, collaborative outlook on leadership, placing the emphasis on relationships, context and transformation where leadership occurs at multiple levels in organisations. While organisations work towards future sustainability in response to the demands of this landscape, leaders are faced with their own personal transition within their roles. Leadership is a socially constructed process that is co-created amidst pressure from self-expectations, follower expectations and organisational requirements. Leadership as a boundary-keeping role that functions on the periphery between the organisation and the external environment, evokes anxiety. The researcher sought to explore, describe and analyse the lived leadership role experience of 21st century leaders as it plays out above and below the surface of consciousness. At the conscious level, the normative role refers to job description and content. At the unconscious level, the existential role deals with the role in the mind of the individual, while the phenomenal role relates to what others perceive and project onto the individual fulfilling the role. The level of congruence between these three roles and its consequent impact on the individual leadership experience were explored. Hermeneutic phenomenology, using the systems psychodynamic perspective as a theoretical framework, enabled the researcher to apply in-depth description and interpretation. A case study research approach was adopted where individual cases were analysed and then consolidated into a cross-case analysis of findings. The study revealed the underlying mental activity and irrational behaviour relating to anxiety, conflict and defences that manifest for 21st century leaders. By integrating the findings with both systems psychodynamic literature and leadership literature, nine themes emerged, namely anxiety, leadership identity, boundaries, authority, role, task, containment, valence and perceived performance. These themes culminated in a research hypothesis about the constant evolution of the leadership role in the context of the current business landscape. / Psychology / Ph. D. (Consulting Psychology)

Executive functions, like the capacity to control and organize thoughts and behavior, develop from childhood to young adulthood. Although task switching and working memory processes are known to undergo strong developmental changes from childhood to adulthood, it is currently unknown how task switching processes are modulated between childhood and adulthood given that working memory processes are central to task switching. The aim of the current study is therefore to examine this question using a combined cue- and memory-based task switching paradigm in children (N = 25) and young adults (N = 25) in combination with neurophysiological (EEG) methods. We obtained an unexpected paradoxical effect suggesting that memory-based task switching is better in late childhood than in young adulthood. No group differences were observed in cue-based task switching. The neurophysiological data suggest that this effect is not due to altered attentional selection (P1, N1) or processes related to the updating, organization, and implementation of the new task-set (P3). Instead, alterations were found in the resolution of task-set conflict and the selection of an appropriate response (N2) when a task has to be switched. Our observation contrasts findings showing that cognitive control mechanisms reach their optimal functioning in early adulthood.

Today the majority of the driver assistance systems are rule-basedcontrol systems that help the driver control the truck. But driversare looking for something more personal and exible that can controlthe truck in a human way with their own preferences. Machine learningand articial intelligence can help achieve this aim. In this studyArticial Neural Networks are used to model the driver steering behaviourin the Scania Lane Keeping Assist. Based on this, trajectoryplanning and steering wheel torque response are modelled to t thedriver preference. A model predictive controller can be used to maintainstate limitations and to weigh the two modelled driver preferencestogether. Due to the diculties in obtaining an internal plant modelfor the model predictive controller a variant of a PI-controller is addedfor integral action instead. The articial neural network also containsan online learning feature to further customize the t to the driverpreference over time. / Idag används till största del regelbaserade reglersystem förförarassistanssystem i lastbilar. Men lastbilschaufförer vill ha någotmer personligt och flexibelt, som kan styra lastbilen på ett mänskligtsätt med förarens egna preferenser. Maskininlärning och artificiell intelligenskan hjälpa till för att uppnå detta mål. I denna studie användsartificiella neurala nätverk för att modellera förarens styrbeteende genomScania Lane Keeping Assist. Med användning av detta modellerasförarens preferenser med avseende på placering på vägbanan och momentpåslag på ratten. En modell prediktiv kontroller kan användas föratt begränsa tillstånd och för att väga de två modellerade preferensernamot varann. Eftersom det var mycket svårt att ta fram den internaprocessmodellen som krävdes för regulatorn används istället en variantav en PI-kontroller för att styra lastbilen. De artificiella neuralanätverken kan också tillåtas att lära sig under körning för att anpassasig till förarens preferenser över tid.

Progress towards sustainability requires changes in our individual and collective behaviour. Yet, our fundamental understanding of behaviour in relation to environmental change remains severely limited. In particular, little attention has been given to how individual and collective behaviours respond to, and are shaped by, non-linear environmental change (such as ‘regime shifts’) and its inherent uncertainties. The thesis makes two main contributions to the literature: 1) it provides one of the first accounts of human behaviour and collective action in relation to ecological regime shifts and associated uncertainties; and 2) extends the incipient behavioural common-pool resource literature that acknowledges social-ecological dynamics and ecological complexity. The overarching aim of this thesis is to further advance an empirically grounded understanding of human behaviour in social-ecological systems. In particular, the thesis attempts to unravel critical social-ecological factors and mechanisms for the sustainability of common-pool resources. This is especially relevant for contexts in which livelihoods can be more directly threatened by regime shifts. The following methods are applied: behavioural economic experiments in the lab (with students; Papers I and II) and in the field (with small-scale fishers from four different communities in the Colombian Caribbean; Paper III), and agent-based modelling empirically informed by a subset of the lab experiments (Paper IV). Paper I tests the effect of an endogenously driven regime shift on the emergence of cooperation and sustainable resource use. Paper II tests the effect of different risk levels of such a regime shift. The regime shift in both papers has negative consequences for the productivity of the shared resource. Paper III assesses the effect of different degrees of uncertainty about a climate-induced threshold in stock dynamics on the exploitation patterns; as well as the role of social and ecological local context. Paper IV explores critical individual-level factors and processes affecting the simultaneous emergence of collective action and sustainable resource use. Results cumulatively suggest that existing scientific knowledge indicating the potential for ecological regime shifts should be communicated to affected local communities, including the remaining uncertainties, as this information can encourage collective action for sustainable resource use. Results also highlight the critical role of ecological knowledge, knowledge-sharing, perceived ecological uncertainties, and the role local contexts play for sustainable outcomes. This thesis enriches the literature on social-ecological systems by demonstrating how a behavioural experimental approach can contribute new insights relevant for sustainability. Overall, these insights indicate that, given the opportunity and the willingness of people to come together, share knowledge, exchange ideas, and build trust, potential ecological crises can encourage collective action, and uncertainties can be turned into opportunities for dealing with change in constructive ways. This provides a hopeful outlook in the face of escalating environmental change and inherent uncertainties. / <p>At the time of the doctoral defense, the following paper was unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 3: Manuscript.</p>

Die dreidimensionale Erfassung der Form und Lage eines beliebigen Objekts durch die flexiblen Methoden und Verfahren der Photogrammetrie spielt für ein breites Spektrum technisch-industrieller und naturwissenschaftlicher Einsatzgebiete eine große Rolle. Die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten reichen von Messaufgaben im Automobil-, Maschinen- und Schiffbau über die Erstellung komplexer 3D-Modelle in Architektur, Archäologie und Denkmalpflege bis hin zu Bewegungsanalysen in Bereichen der Strömungsmesstechnik, Ballistik oder Medizin. In der Nahbereichsphotogrammetrie werden dabei verschiedene optische 3D-Messsysteme verwendet. Neben flächenhaften Halbleiterkameras im Einzel- oder Mehrbildverband kommen aktive Triangulationsverfahren zur Oberflächenmessung mit z.B. strukturiertem Licht oder Laserscanner-Systeme zum Einsatz. 3D-Kameras auf der Basis von Photomischdetektoren oder vergleichbaren Prinzipien erzeugen durch die Anwendung von Modulationstechniken zusätzlich zu einem Grauwertbild simultan ein Entfernungsbild. Als Einzelbildsensoren liefern sie ohne die Notwendigkeit einer stereoskopischen Zuordnung räumlich aufgelöste Oberflächendaten in Videorate. In der 3D-Bewegungsanalyse ergeben sich bezüglich der Komplexität und des Rechenaufwands erhebliche Erleichterungen. 3D-Kameras verbinden die Handlichkeit einer Digitalkamera mit dem Potential der dreidimensionalen Datenakquisition etablierter Oberflächenmesssysteme. Sie stellen trotz der noch vergleichsweise geringen räumlichen Auflösung als monosensorielles System zur Echtzeit-Tiefenbildakquisition eine interessante Alternative für Aufgabenstellungen der 3D-Bewegungsanalyse dar. Der Einsatz einer 3D-Kamera als Messinstrument verlangt die Modellierung von Abweichungen zum idealen Abbildungsmodell; die Verarbeitung der erzeugten 3D-Kameradaten bedingt die zielgerichtete Adaption, Weiter- und Neuentwicklung von Verfahren der Computer Vision und Photogrammetrie. Am Beispiel der Untersuchung des zwischenmenschlichen Bewegungsverhaltens sind folglich die Entwicklung von Verfahren zur Sensorkalibrierung und zur 3D-Bewegungsanalyse die Schwerpunkte der Dissertation. Eine 3D-Kamera stellt aufgrund ihres inhärenten Designs und Messprinzips gleichzeitig Amplituden- und Entfernungsinformationen zur Verfügung, welche aus einem Messsignal rekonstruiert werden. Die simultane Einbeziehung aller 3D-Kamerainformationen in jeweils einen integrierten Ansatz ist eine logische Konsequenz und steht im Vordergrund der Verfahrensentwicklungen. Zum einen stützen sich die komplementären Eigenschaften der Beobachtungen durch die Herstellung des funktionalen Zusammenhangs der Messkanäle gegenseitig, wodurch Genauigkeits- und Zuverlässigkeitssteigerungen zu erwarten sind. Zum anderen gewährleistet das um eine Varianzkomponentenschätzung erweiterte stochastische Modell eine vollständige Ausnutzung des heterogenen Informationshaushalts. Die entwickelte integrierte Bündelblockausgleichung ermöglicht die Bestimmung der exakten 3D-Kamerageometrie sowie die Schätzung der distanzmessspezifischen Korrekturparameter zur Modellierung linearer, zyklischer und signalwegeffektbedingter Fehleranteile einer 3D-Kamerastreckenmessung. Die integrierte Kalibrierroutine gleicht in beiden Informationskanälen gemessene Größen gemeinsam, unter der automatischen Schätzung optimaler Beobachtungsgewichte, aus. Die Methode basiert auf dem flexiblen Prinzip einer Selbstkalibrierung und benötigt keine Objektrauminformation, wodurch insbesondere die aufwendige Ermittlung von Referenzstrecken übergeordneter Genauigkeit entfällt. Die durchgeführten Genauigkeitsuntersuchungen bestätigen die Richtigkeit der aufgestellten funktionalen Zusammenhänge, zeigen aber auch Schwächen aufgrund noch nicht parametrisierter distanzmessspezifischer Fehler. Die Adaptivität und die modulare Implementierung des entwickelten mathematischen Modells gewährleisten aber eine zukünftige Erweiterung. Die Qualität der 3D-Neupunktkoordinaten kann nach einer Kalibrierung mit 5 mm angegeben werden. Für die durch eine Vielzahl von meist simultan auftretenden Rauschquellen beeinflusste Tiefenbildtechnologie ist diese Genauigkeitsangabe sehr vielversprechend, vor allem im Hinblick auf die Entwicklung von auf korrigierten 3D-Kameradaten aufbauenden Auswertealgorithmen. 2,5D Least Squares Tracking (LST) ist eine im Rahmen der Dissertation entwickelte integrierte spatiale und temporale Zuordnungsmethode zur Auswertung von 3D-Kamerabildsequenzen. Der Algorithmus basiert auf der in der Photogrammetrie bekannten Bildzuordnung nach der Methode der kleinsten Quadrate und bildet kleine Oberflächensegmente konsekutiver 3D-Kameradatensätze aufeinander ab. Die Abbildungsvorschrift wurde, aufbauend auf einer 2D-Affintransformation, an die Datenstruktur einer 3D-Kamera angepasst. Die geschlossen formulierte Parametrisierung verknüpft sowohl Grau- als auch Entfernungswerte in einem integrierten Modell. Neben den affinen Parametern zur Erfassung von Translations- und Rotationseffekten, modellieren die Maßstabs- sowie Neigungsparameter perspektivbedingte Größenänderungen des Bildausschnitts, verursacht durch Distanzänderungen in Aufnahmerichtung. Die Eingabedaten sind in einem Vorverarbeitungsschritt mit Hilfe der entwickelten Kalibrierroutine um ihre opto- und distanzmessspezifischen Fehler korrigiert sowie die gemessenen Schrägstrecken auf Horizontaldistanzen reduziert worden. 2,5D-LST liefert als integrierter Ansatz vollständige 3D-Verschiebungsvektoren. Weiterhin können die aus der Fehlerrechnung resultierenden Genauigkeits- und Zuverlässigkeitsangaben als Entscheidungskriterien für die Integration in einer anwendungsspezifischen Verarbeitungskette Verwendung finden. Die Validierung des Verfahrens zeigte, dass die Einführung komplementärer Informationen eine genauere und zuverlässigere Lösung des Korrespondenzproblems bringt, vor allem bei schwierigen Kontrastverhältnissen in einem Kanal. Die Genauigkeit der direkt mit den Distanzkorrekturtermen verknüpften Maßstabs- und Neigungsparameter verbesserte sich deutlich. Darüber hinaus brachte die Erweiterung des geometrischen Modells insbesondere bei der Zuordnung natürlicher, nicht gänzlich ebener Oberflächensegmente signifikante Vorteile. Die entwickelte flächenbasierte Methode zur Objektzuordnung und Objektverfolgung arbeitet auf der Grundlage berührungslos aufgenommener 3D-Kameradaten. Sie ist somit besonders für Aufgabenstellungen der 3D-Bewegungsanalyse geeignet, die den Mehraufwand einer multiokularen Experimentalanordnung und die Notwendigkeit einer Objektsignalisierung mit Zielmarken vermeiden möchten. Das Potential des 3D-Kamerazuordnungsansatzes wurde an zwei Anwendungsszenarien der menschlichen Verhaltensforschung demonstriert. 2,5D-LST kam zur Bestimmung der interpersonalen Distanz und Körperorientierung im erziehungswissenschaftlichen Untersuchungsgebiet der Konfliktregulation befreundeter Kindespaare ebenso zum Einsatz wie zur Markierung und anschließenden Klassifizierung von Bewegungseinheiten sprachbegleitender Handgesten. Die Implementierung von 2,5D-LST in die vorgeschlagenen Verfahren ermöglichte eine automatische, effektive, objektive sowie zeitlich und räumlich hochaufgelöste Erhebung und Auswertung verhaltensrelevanter Daten. Die vorliegende Dissertation schlägt die Verwendung einer neuartigen 3D-Tiefenbildkamera zur Erhebung menschlicher Verhaltensdaten vor. Sie präsentiert sowohl ein zur Datenaufbereitung entwickeltes Kalibrierwerkzeug als auch eine Methode zur berührungslosen Bestimmung dichter 3D-Bewegungsvektorfelder. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass die Methoden der Photogrammetrie auch für bewegungsanalytische Aufgabenstellungen auf dem bisher noch wenig erschlossenen Gebiet der Verhaltensforschung wertvolle Ergebnisse liefern können. Damit leistet sie einen Beitrag für die derzeitigen Bestrebungen in der automatisierten videographischen Erhebung von Körperbewegungen in dyadischen Interaktionen. / The three-dimensional documentation of the form and location of any type of object using flexible photogrammetric methods and procedures plays a key role in a wide range of technical-industrial and scientific areas of application. Potential applications include measurement tasks in the automotive, machine building and ship building sectors, the compilation of complex 3D models in the fields of architecture, archaeology and monumental preservation and motion analyses in the fields of flow measurement technology, ballistics and medicine. In the case of close-range photogrammetry a variety of optical 3D measurement systems are used. Area sensor cameras arranged in single or multi-image configurations are used besides active triangulation procedures for surface measurement (e.g. using structured light or laser scanner systems). The use of modulation techniques enables 3D cameras based on photomix detectors or similar principles to simultaneously produce both a grey value image and a range image. Functioning as single image sensors, they deliver spatially resolved surface data at video rate without the need for stereoscopic image matching. In the case of 3D motion analyses in particular, this leads to considerable reductions in complexity and computing time. 3D cameras combine the practicality of a digital camera with the 3D data acquisition potential of conventional surface measurement systems. Despite the relatively low spatial resolution currently achievable, as a monosensory real-time depth image acquisition system they represent an interesting alternative in the field of 3D motion analysis. The use of 3D cameras as measuring instruments requires the modelling of deviations from the ideal projection model, and indeed the processing of the 3D camera data generated requires the targeted adaptation, development and further development of procedures in the fields of computer graphics and photogrammetry. This Ph.D. thesis therefore focuses on the development of methods of sensor calibration and 3D motion analysis in the context of investigations into inter-human motion behaviour. As a result of its intrinsic design and measurement principle, a 3D camera simultaneously provides amplitude and range data reconstructed from a measurement signal. The simultaneous integration of all data obtained using a 3D camera into an integrated approach is a logical consequence and represents the focus of current procedural development. On the one hand, the complementary characteristics of the observations made support each other due to the creation of a functional context for the measurement channels, with is to be expected to lead to increases in accuracy and reliability. On the other, the expansion of the stochastic model to include variance component estimation ensures that the heterogeneous information pool is fully exploited. The integrated bundle adjustment developed facilitates the definition of precise 3D camera geometry and the estimation of range-measurement-specific correction parameters required for the modelling of the linear, cyclical and latency defectives of a distance measurement made using a 3D camera. The integrated calibration routine jointly adjusts appropriate dimensions across both information channels, and also automatically estimates optimum observation weights. The method is based on the same flexible principle used in self-calibration, does not require spatial object data and therefore foregoes the time-consuming determination of reference distances with superior accuracy. The accuracy analyses carried out confirm the correctness of the proposed functional contexts, but nevertheless exhibit weaknesses in the form of non-parameterized range-measurement-specific errors. This notwithstanding, the future expansion of the mathematical model developed is guaranteed due to its adaptivity and modular implementation. The accuracy of a new 3D point coordinate can be set at 5 mm further to calibration. In the case of depth imaging technology – which is influenced by a range of usually simultaneously occurring noise sources – this level of accuracy is very promising, especially in terms of the development of evaluation algorithms based on corrected 3D camera data. 2.5D Least Squares Tracking (LST) is an integrated spatial and temporal matching method developed within the framework of this Ph.D. thesis for the purpose of evaluating 3D camera image sequences. The algorithm is based on the least squares image matching method already established in photogrammetry, and maps small surface segments of consecutive 3D camera data sets on top of one another. The mapping rule has been adapted to the data structure of a 3D camera on the basis of a 2D affine transformation. The closed parameterization combines both grey values and range values in an integrated model. In addition to the affine parameters used to include translation and rotation effects, the scale and inclination parameters model perspective-related deviations caused by distance changes in the line of sight. A pre-processing phase sees the calibration routine developed used to correct optical and distance-related measurement specific errors in input data and measured slope distances reduced to horizontal distances. 2.5D LST is an integrated approach, and therefore delivers fully three-dimensional displacement vectors. In addition, the accuracy and reliability data generated by error calculation can be used as decision criteria for integration into an application-specific processing chain. Process validation showed that the integration of complementary data leads to a more accurate, reliable solution to the correspondence problem, especially in the case of difficult contrast ratios within a channel. The accuracy of scale and inclination parameters directly linked to distance correction terms improved dramatically. In addition, the expansion of the geometric model led to significant benefits, and in particular for the matching of natural, not entirely planar surface segments. The area-based object matching and object tracking method developed functions on the basis of 3D camera data gathered without object contact. It is therefore particularly suited to 3D motion analysis tasks in which the extra effort involved in multi-ocular experimental settings and the necessity of object signalling using target marks are to be avoided. The potential of the 3D camera matching approach has been demonstrated in two application scenarios in the field of research into human behaviour. As in the case of the use of 2.5D LST to mark and then classify hand gestures accompanying verbal communication, the implementation of 2.5D LST in the proposed procedures for the determination of interpersonal distance and body orientation within the framework of pedagogical research into conflict regulation between pairs of child-age friends facilitates the automatic, effective, objective and high-resolution (from both a temporal and spatial perspective) acquisition and evaluation of data with relevance to behaviour. This Ph.D. thesis proposes the use of a novel 3D range imaging camera to gather data on human behaviour, and presents both a calibration tool developed for data processing purposes and a method for the contact-free determination of dense 3D motion vector fields. It therefore makes a contribution to current efforts in the field of the automated videographic documentation of bodily motion within the framework of dyadic interaction, and shows that photogrammetric methods can also deliver valuable results within the framework of motion evaluation tasks in the as-yet relatively untapped field of behavioural research.

Augusto Boal developed Theatre of the Oppressed as a way of using the symbolic language of the dramatic arts in the examination of power relations in both the personal and social contexts. Boal understood that symbolic realities directly influence empirical reality and that drama, as an art form that employs the narrative and the event, serves as a powerful interface between symbols and actuality. In the dramatic process, the creation and the environment from which it emerges are inevitably transformed in the process of enactment. These transformations manifest in the context of power relations - in the context of the receptors ability to make decisions and to engage in actions, and the communicators ability to influence the receptors opinions and behaviour. This thesis will examine two different practices in which symbolic realities have been utilised in the context of human relations of power. Primarily, this thesis examines the theory and practice of Theatre of the Oppressed as it has developed.

MSc (Zoology) / Department of Zoology / Many chemicals released into the environment are believed to disrupt normal endocrine functions in humans and animals. These endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) affect reproductive health and development. A major group of EDCs that could be responsible for reproductive effects are those that mimic natural oestrogens, known as xeno-oestrogens. A number of in vivo and in vitro screening strategies are being developed to identify and classify xeno-oestrogens, in order to determine whether they pose a health risk to humans and animals. It is also important to be able to apply the assays to environmental samples for monitoring purposes. Oestrogens and androgens mediate their activity via intracellular receptors – directly in muscular tissue as well as indirectly via stimulation of growth hormones from the pituitary glands and other growth factors from liver plus several other organs. Mancozeb is a metal ethylenebisdithiocarbamate (EBDC) fungicide used to protect many fruits and vegetables and field crops against pathogenic fungal. It causes a variety of defects on the female reproductive system in experimental animals and is therefore considered a suspected EDC. This fungicide can also induce toxic effects in cells of the immune system and other non-immune cells leading to genotoxicity and apoptosis. The mechanisms of EDCs involve divergent pathways including (but not limited to) oestrogenic, antiandrogenic, thyroid receptors; that are highly conserved in wildlife and humans, and which can be modelled in laboratory in vitro and in vivo models. The endocrine disrupting properties of Mancozeb are not known as of yet and therefore the T47D-KBluc reporter gene assay, GH3.TRE-Luc and MDA-kb2 reporter gene assay were used determine the possible endocrine disrupting activity/potential there-of. No activity was detected in any of the assays and no mancozeb was detected in any of the dams either. Oestrogenic activity was detected in Albasini Dam, Nandoni Dam and Xikundu weir but all values were below 0.7 ng/ℓ trigger value for oestrogenic activity in drinking water. / NRF

Die dreidimensionale Erfassung der Form und Lage eines beliebigen Objekts durch die flexiblen Methoden und Verfahren der Photogrammetrie spielt für ein breites Spektrum technisch-industrieller und naturwissenschaftlicher Einsatzgebiete eine große Rolle. Die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten reichen von Messaufgaben im Automobil-, Maschinen- und Schiffbau über die Erstellung komplexer 3D-Modelle in Architektur, Archäologie und Denkmalpflege bis hin zu Bewegungsanalysen in Bereichen der Strömungsmesstechnik, Ballistik oder Medizin. In der Nahbereichsphotogrammetrie werden dabei verschiedene optische 3D-Messsysteme verwendet. Neben flächenhaften Halbleiterkameras im Einzel- oder Mehrbildverband kommen aktive Triangulationsverfahren zur Oberflächenmessung mit z.B. strukturiertem Licht oder Laserscanner-Systeme zum Einsatz. 3D-Kameras auf der Basis von Photomischdetektoren oder vergleichbaren Prinzipien erzeugen durch die Anwendung von Modulationstechniken zusätzlich zu einem Grauwertbild simultan ein Entfernungsbild. Als Einzelbildsensoren liefern sie ohne die Notwendigkeit einer stereoskopischen Zuordnung räumlich aufgelöste Oberflächendaten in Videorate. In der 3D-Bewegungsanalyse ergeben sich bezüglich der Komplexität und des Rechenaufwands erhebliche Erleichterungen. 3D-Kameras verbinden die Handlichkeit einer Digitalkamera mit dem Potential der dreidimensionalen Datenakquisition etablierter Oberflächenmesssysteme. Sie stellen trotz der noch vergleichsweise geringen räumlichen Auflösung als monosensorielles System zur Echtzeit-Tiefenbildakquisition eine interessante Alternative für Aufgabenstellungen der 3D-Bewegungsanalyse dar. Der Einsatz einer 3D-Kamera als Messinstrument verlangt die Modellierung von Abweichungen zum idealen Abbildungsmodell; die Verarbeitung der erzeugten 3D-Kameradaten bedingt die zielgerichtete Adaption, Weiter- und Neuentwicklung von Verfahren der Computer Vision und Photogrammetrie. Am Beispiel der Untersuchung des zwischenmenschlichen Bewegungsverhaltens sind folglich die Entwicklung von Verfahren zur Sensorkalibrierung und zur 3D-Bewegungsanalyse die Schwerpunkte der Dissertation. Eine 3D-Kamera stellt aufgrund ihres inhärenten Designs und Messprinzips gleichzeitig Amplituden- und Entfernungsinformationen zur Verfügung, welche aus einem Messsignal rekonstruiert werden. Die simultane Einbeziehung aller 3D-Kamerainformationen in jeweils einen integrierten Ansatz ist eine logische Konsequenz und steht im Vordergrund der Verfahrensentwicklungen. Zum einen stützen sich die komplementären Eigenschaften der Beobachtungen durch die Herstellung des funktionalen Zusammenhangs der Messkanäle gegenseitig, wodurch Genauigkeits- und Zuverlässigkeitssteigerungen zu erwarten sind. Zum anderen gewährleistet das um eine Varianzkomponentenschätzung erweiterte stochastische Modell eine vollständige Ausnutzung des heterogenen Informationshaushalts. Die entwickelte integrierte Bündelblockausgleichung ermöglicht die Bestimmung der exakten 3D-Kamerageometrie sowie die Schätzung der distanzmessspezifischen Korrekturparameter zur Modellierung linearer, zyklischer und signalwegeffektbedingter Fehleranteile einer 3D-Kamerastreckenmessung. Die integrierte Kalibrierroutine gleicht in beiden Informationskanälen gemessene Größen gemeinsam, unter der automatischen Schätzung optimaler Beobachtungsgewichte, aus. Die Methode basiert auf dem flexiblen Prinzip einer Selbstkalibrierung und benötigt keine Objektrauminformation, wodurch insbesondere die aufwendige Ermittlung von Referenzstrecken übergeordneter Genauigkeit entfällt. Die durchgeführten Genauigkeitsuntersuchungen bestätigen die Richtigkeit der aufgestellten funktionalen Zusammenhänge, zeigen aber auch Schwächen aufgrund noch nicht parametrisierter distanzmessspezifischer Fehler. Die Adaptivität und die modulare Implementierung des entwickelten mathematischen Modells gewährleisten aber eine zukünftige Erweiterung. Die Qualität der 3D-Neupunktkoordinaten kann nach einer Kalibrierung mit 5 mm angegeben werden. Für die durch eine Vielzahl von meist simultan auftretenden Rauschquellen beeinflusste Tiefenbildtechnologie ist diese Genauigkeitsangabe sehr vielversprechend, vor allem im Hinblick auf die Entwicklung von auf korrigierten 3D-Kameradaten aufbauenden Auswertealgorithmen. 2,5D Least Squares Tracking (LST) ist eine im Rahmen der Dissertation entwickelte integrierte spatiale und temporale Zuordnungsmethode zur Auswertung von 3D-Kamerabildsequenzen. Der Algorithmus basiert auf der in der Photogrammetrie bekannten Bildzuordnung nach der Methode der kleinsten Quadrate und bildet kleine Oberflächensegmente konsekutiver 3D-Kameradatensätze aufeinander ab. Die Abbildungsvorschrift wurde, aufbauend auf einer 2D-Affintransformation, an die Datenstruktur einer 3D-Kamera angepasst. Die geschlossen formulierte Parametrisierung verknüpft sowohl Grau- als auch Entfernungswerte in einem integrierten Modell. Neben den affinen Parametern zur Erfassung von Translations- und Rotationseffekten, modellieren die Maßstabs- sowie Neigungsparameter perspektivbedingte Größenänderungen des Bildausschnitts, verursacht durch Distanzänderungen in Aufnahmerichtung. Die Eingabedaten sind in einem Vorverarbeitungsschritt mit Hilfe der entwickelten Kalibrierroutine um ihre opto- und distanzmessspezifischen Fehler korrigiert sowie die gemessenen Schrägstrecken auf Horizontaldistanzen reduziert worden. 2,5D-LST liefert als integrierter Ansatz vollständige 3D-Verschiebungsvektoren. Weiterhin können die aus der Fehlerrechnung resultierenden Genauigkeits- und Zuverlässigkeitsangaben als Entscheidungskriterien für die Integration in einer anwendungsspezifischen Verarbeitungskette Verwendung finden. Die Validierung des Verfahrens zeigte, dass die Einführung komplementärer Informationen eine genauere und zuverlässigere Lösung des Korrespondenzproblems bringt, vor allem bei schwierigen Kontrastverhältnissen in einem Kanal. Die Genauigkeit der direkt mit den Distanzkorrekturtermen verknüpften Maßstabs- und Neigungsparameter verbesserte sich deutlich. Darüber hinaus brachte die Erweiterung des geometrischen Modells insbesondere bei der Zuordnung natürlicher, nicht gänzlich ebener Oberflächensegmente signifikante Vorteile. Die entwickelte flächenbasierte Methode zur Objektzuordnung und Objektverfolgung arbeitet auf der Grundlage berührungslos aufgenommener 3D-Kameradaten. Sie ist somit besonders für Aufgabenstellungen der 3D-Bewegungsanalyse geeignet, die den Mehraufwand einer multiokularen Experimentalanordnung und die Notwendigkeit einer Objektsignalisierung mit Zielmarken vermeiden möchten. Das Potential des 3D-Kamerazuordnungsansatzes wurde an zwei Anwendungsszenarien der menschlichen Verhaltensforschung demonstriert. 2,5D-LST kam zur Bestimmung der interpersonalen Distanz und Körperorientierung im erziehungswissenschaftlichen Untersuchungsgebiet der Konfliktregulation befreundeter Kindespaare ebenso zum Einsatz wie zur Markierung und anschließenden Klassifizierung von Bewegungseinheiten sprachbegleitender Handgesten. Die Implementierung von 2,5D-LST in die vorgeschlagenen Verfahren ermöglichte eine automatische, effektive, objektive sowie zeitlich und räumlich hochaufgelöste Erhebung und Auswertung verhaltensrelevanter Daten. Die vorliegende Dissertation schlägt die Verwendung einer neuartigen 3D-Tiefenbildkamera zur Erhebung menschlicher Verhaltensdaten vor. Sie präsentiert sowohl ein zur Datenaufbereitung entwickeltes Kalibrierwerkzeug als auch eine Methode zur berührungslosen Bestimmung dichter 3D-Bewegungsvektorfelder. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass die Methoden der Photogrammetrie auch für bewegungsanalytische Aufgabenstellungen auf dem bisher noch wenig erschlossenen Gebiet der Verhaltensforschung wertvolle Ergebnisse liefern können. Damit leistet sie einen Beitrag für die derzeitigen Bestrebungen in der automatisierten videographischen Erhebung von Körperbewegungen in dyadischen Interaktionen. / The three-dimensional documentation of the form and location of any type of object using flexible photogrammetric methods and procedures plays a key role in a wide range of technical-industrial and scientific areas of application. Potential applications include measurement tasks in the automotive, machine building and ship building sectors, the compilation of complex 3D models in the fields of architecture, archaeology and monumental preservation and motion analyses in the fields of flow measurement technology, ballistics and medicine. In the case of close-range photogrammetry a variety of optical 3D measurement systems are used. Area sensor cameras arranged in single or multi-image configurations are used besides active triangulation procedures for surface measurement (e.g. using structured light or laser scanner systems). The use of modulation techniques enables 3D cameras based on photomix detectors or similar principles to simultaneously produce both a grey value image and a range image. Functioning as single image sensors, they deliver spatially resolved surface data at video rate without the need for stereoscopic image matching. In the case of 3D motion analyses in particular, this leads to considerable reductions in complexity and computing time. 3D cameras combine the practicality of a digital camera with the 3D data acquisition potential of conventional surface measurement systems. Despite the relatively low spatial resolution currently achievable, as a monosensory real-time depth image acquisition system they represent an interesting alternative in the field of 3D motion analysis. The use of 3D cameras as measuring instruments requires the modelling of deviations from the ideal projection model, and indeed the processing of the 3D camera data generated requires the targeted adaptation, development and further development of procedures in the fields of computer graphics and photogrammetry. This Ph.D. thesis therefore focuses on the development of methods of sensor calibration and 3D motion analysis in the context of investigations into inter-human motion behaviour. As a result of its intrinsic design and measurement principle, a 3D camera simultaneously provides amplitude and range data reconstructed from a measurement signal. The simultaneous integration of all data obtained using a 3D camera into an integrated approach is a logical consequence and represents the focus of current procedural development. On the one hand, the complementary characteristics of the observations made support each other due to the creation of a functional context for the measurement channels, with is to be expected to lead to increases in accuracy and reliability. On the other, the expansion of the stochastic model to include variance component estimation ensures that the heterogeneous information pool is fully exploited. The integrated bundle adjustment developed facilitates the definition of precise 3D camera geometry and the estimation of range-measurement-specific correction parameters required for the modelling of the linear, cyclical and latency defectives of a distance measurement made using a 3D camera. The integrated calibration routine jointly adjusts appropriate dimensions across both information channels, and also automatically estimates optimum observation weights. The method is based on the same flexible principle used in self-calibration, does not require spatial object data and therefore foregoes the time-consuming determination of reference distances with superior accuracy. The accuracy analyses carried out confirm the correctness of the proposed functional contexts, but nevertheless exhibit weaknesses in the form of non-parameterized range-measurement-specific errors. This notwithstanding, the future expansion of the mathematical model developed is guaranteed due to its adaptivity and modular implementation. The accuracy of a new 3D point coordinate can be set at 5 mm further to calibration. In the case of depth imaging technology – which is influenced by a range of usually simultaneously occurring noise sources – this level of accuracy is very promising, especially in terms of the development of evaluation algorithms based on corrected 3D camera data. 2.5D Least Squares Tracking (LST) is an integrated spatial and temporal matching method developed within the framework of this Ph.D. thesis for the purpose of evaluating 3D camera image sequences. The algorithm is based on the least squares image matching method already established in photogrammetry, and maps small surface segments of consecutive 3D camera data sets on top of one another. The mapping rule has been adapted to the data structure of a 3D camera on the basis of a 2D affine transformation. The closed parameterization combines both grey values and range values in an integrated model. In addition to the affine parameters used to include translation and rotation effects, the scale and inclination parameters model perspective-related deviations caused by distance changes in the line of sight. A pre-processing phase sees the calibration routine developed used to correct optical and distance-related measurement specific errors in input data and measured slope distances reduced to horizontal distances. 2.5D LST is an integrated approach, and therefore delivers fully three-dimensional displacement vectors. In addition, the accuracy and reliability data generated by error calculation can be used as decision criteria for integration into an application-specific processing chain. Process validation showed that the integration of complementary data leads to a more accurate, reliable solution to the correspondence problem, especially in the case of difficult contrast ratios within a channel. The accuracy of scale and inclination parameters directly linked to distance correction terms improved dramatically. In addition, the expansion of the geometric model led to significant benefits, and in particular for the matching of natural, not entirely planar surface segments. The area-based object matching and object tracking method developed functions on the basis of 3D camera data gathered without object contact. It is therefore particularly suited to 3D motion analysis tasks in which the extra effort involved in multi-ocular experimental settings and the necessity of object signalling using target marks are to be avoided. The potential of the 3D camera matching approach has been demonstrated in two application scenarios in the field of research into human behaviour. As in the case of the use of 2.5D LST to mark and then classify hand gestures accompanying verbal communication, the implementation of 2.5D LST in the proposed procedures for the determination of interpersonal distance and body orientation within the framework of pedagogical research into conflict regulation between pairs of child-age friends facilitates the automatic, effective, objective and high-resolution (from both a temporal and spatial perspective) acquisition and evaluation of data with relevance to behaviour. This Ph.D. thesis proposes the use of a novel 3D range imaging camera to gather data on human behaviour, and presents both a calibration tool developed for data processing purposes and a method for the contact-free determination of dense 3D motion vector fields. It therefore makes a contribution to current efforts in the field of the automated videographic documentation of bodily motion within the framework of dyadic interaction, and shows that photogrammetric methods can also deliver valuable results within the framework of motion evaluation tasks in the as-yet relatively untapped field of behavioural research.

There is an increasing concern for the impact of humans on the environment. Traditionally, ecological models consider human influence as a constant or linearly varying parameter, whereas socioeconomic models and frameworks tend to oversimplify the ecological system. But tackling complex environmental challenges faced by our societies requires interdisciplinary approaches due to the intricate feedbacks between the socioeconomic and ecological systems involved. Thus, models of social-ecological systems couple an ecological system with a socioeconomic system to investigate their interaction in the integrated dynamical system. We define this coupling formally and apply the social-ecological approach to three ecological cases. Indeed, we focus on eutrophication in shallow freshwater lakes, which is a well-known system showing bistability between a clear water state and a turbid polluted state. We also study a model accounting for an aquifer (water stock) and a model accounting for a biotic population exhibiting bistability through an Allee effect. The socioeconomic dynamics is driven by the incentive that agents feel to act in a desirable or undesirable way. This incentive can be represented by a difference in utility, or in payoff, between two strategies that each agent can adopt: agents can cooperate and act in an environment-friendly way, or they can defect and act in an ecologically undesirable way. The agents' motivation includes such factors as the economic cost of their choice, the concern they feel for the environment and conformism to the collective attitude of the human group. Thus, the incentive to cooperate responds to the state of the ecological system and to the agents' collective opinion, and this response can be linear, nonlinear and monotonic, or non-monotonic. When investigating the mathematical form of this response, we find that monotonic non-linear responses may result in additional equilibria, cycles and basins of attraction compared to the linear case. Non-monotonic responses, such as resignation effects, may produce much more complicated nullclines such as a closed nullcline and weaken our ability to anticipate the dynamics of a social-ecological system. Regarding the modelling of the socioeconomic subsystem, the replicator dynamics and the logit best-response dynamics are widely used mathematical formulations from evolutionary game theory. There seems to be little awareness about the impact of choosing one or the other. The replicator dynamics assumes that the socioeconomic subsystem is stationary when all agents adopt the same behaviour, whereas the best-response dynamics assumes that this situation is not stationary. The replicator dynamics has formal game theoretical foundations, whereas best-response dynamics comes from psychology. Recent experiments found that the best-response dynamics explains empirical data better. We find that the two dynamics can produce a different number of equilibria as well as differences in their stability. The replicator dynamics is a limit case of the logit best-response dynamics when agents have an infinite rationality. We show that even generic social-ecological models can show multistability. In many cases, multistability allows for counterintuitive equilibria to emerge, where ecological desirability and socioeconomic desirability are not correlated. This makes generic management recommendations difficult to find and several policies with and without socioeconomic impact should be considered. Even in cases where there is a unique equilibrium, it can lose stability and give rise to sustained oscillations. We can interpret these oscillations in a way similar to the cycles found in classical predator-prey systems. In the lake pollution social-ecological model for instance, the agents' defection increases the lake pollution, which makes agents feel concerned and convince the majority to cooperate. Then, the ecological concern decreases because the lake is not polluted and the incentive to cooperate plummets, so that it becomes more advantageous for the agents to defect again. We show that the oscillations obtained when using the replicator dynamics tend to produce a make-or-break dynamics, where a random perturbation could shift the system to either full cooperation or full defection depending on its timing along the cycle. Management measures may shift the location of the social-ecological system at equilibrium, but also make attractors appear or disappear in the phase plane or change the resilience of stable steady states. The resilience of equilibria relates to basins of attraction and is especially important in the face of potential regime shifts. Sources of uncertainty that should be taken into account for the management of social-ecological systems include multistability and the possibility of counterintuitive equilibria, the wide range of possible policy measures with or without socioeconomic interventions, and the behaviour of human collectives involved, which may be described by different dynamics. Yet, uncertainty coming from the collective behaviour of agents is mitigated if they do not give up or rely on the other agents' efforts, which allows modelling to better inform decision makers.