WearIT@Work

Contact

Dr. Thomas Stiefmeier

Kilian Förster

Project Start

June 2004

Objectives

wearIT@work was set up by the European Commission as an Integrated Project to investigate “Wearable Computing” as a technology dealing with computer systems integrated in clothing. wearIT@work will prove the applicability of computer systems integrated to clothes, the so-called wearables, in various industrial environments. One of the major goals is to investigate the user acceptance of wearables. Furthermore methods for user interaction and processes suited to wearables in industry will be identified. It seems to be essen­tial to have methods to detect the work context and have a general architecture of wearables as well as a hardware and software platform for the implementation of wearables. This will be the basis for the four industrial pilot applications, variant production, the clinical path way, maintenance and emergency.

In variant production the challenge will be the information integration and the intelligent information presentation. For the clinical pathway the focus will be on intelligent information logistics and context aware collaboration. The maintenance scenario will have its focal point on context detection and intelligent manuals. The focus of the emergency activity field will be the collaborative planning and interaction using wearable devices.

The Wearable Computing Lab leads the Wearable Computer Systems activity field of the project and will provide and adapt its QBIC next generation wearable computing platform for the use of the project. It also participates in the development of the Wearable Computing Roadmap of the wearIT@work project. Furthermore, the Wearable Computing Lab is among the leading project partners in the Context activity field, dealing with low level signal processing, features extraction and low level activity recognition.

Publications

• Real-Time Spotting of Human Activities in Industrial Environments, Thomas Stiefmeier, PhD Thesis, ISBN 978-3-9093-8682-6, July, 2008
• Using a complex Multi-modal On-body Sensor System for Activity Spotting, Georg Ogris, Thomas Stiefmeier, Paul Lukowicz, Gerhard Tröster, 12th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Pittsburgh, USA, September 28 - October 1, 2008
• Results Overview on the Activity Recognition Problem in the Skoda Production Scenario, Paul Lukowicz, Georg Ogris, Thomas Stiefmeier, Gerhard Tröster, 14th International Conference on Concurrent Enterprising (ICE), Lisboa, Portugal, June 23 - 25, 2008
• Wearable Activity Tracking in Car Manufacturing, Thomas Stiefmeier, Daniel Roggen, Georg Ogris, Paul Lukowicz, Gerhard Tröster, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 7, No. 2, Apr-Jun 2008
• Fusion of Upper-body Motion Trajectories for Activity Recognition using String Matching, Thomas Stiefmeier, Gerhard Tröster, Third International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), Melbourne, Australia, December 3-6, 2007
• Fusion of String-Matched Templates for Continuous Activity Recognition, Thomas Stiefmeier, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Tröster, 11th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Boston, USA, October 11-13, 2007
• Gestures are Strings: Efficient Online Gesture Spotting and Classification using String Matching, Thomas Stiefmeier, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Tröster, BodyNets 2007, Florence, Italy, June 11-13, 2007
• A Wearable Computing Prototype for Supporting Training Activities in Automative Production, Iñaki Maurtua, Pierre T. Kirisci, Thomas Stiefmeier, Marco Luca Sbodio, Hendrik Witt, 4th International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing (IFAWC), Tel Aviv, Israel, March 12 - 13, 2007
• Combining Motion Sensors and Ultrasonic Hands Tracking for Continuous Activity Recognition in a Maintenance Scenario, Thomas Stiefmeier, Georg Ogris, Holger Junker, Paul Lukowicz, Gerhard Tröster, 10th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Montreux, Switzerland, October 11-14, 2006
• Event-Based Activity Tracking in Work Environments, Thomas Stiefmeier, Clemens Lombriser, Daniel Roggen, Holger Junker, Georg Ogris, Gerhard Tröster, 3rd International Forum on Applied Wearable Computing (IFAWC), Bremen, Germany, March 15 - 16, 2006
• Using Ultrasonic Hand Tracking to Augment Motion Analysis Based Recognition of Manipulative Gestures, Georg Ogris, Thomas Stiefmeier, Holger Junker, Paul Lukowicz, Gerhard Tröster, 9th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC), Osaka, Japan, October 18 - 21, 2005

Links

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TZI - Technologie-Zentrum Informatik, Universität Bremen

Fraunhofer - Institut Angewandte Informationstechnik