Industry 4.0 & Cobots

Within industrial work settings, studying how work is distributed between people and technology, how it is practically achieved, and how systems should be designed to support work are my focus of interest. With the vision for Industry 4.0 and cobots, working conditions in the industrial settings are starting to change. I am convinced that we are in a transitioning phase from automation to actual collaboration with robots in manufacturing and that this will open up a new problem space for investigations, in which research on Human-Robot Collaboration will be crucial. My research focusses on social practice and workplace studies to explore the socio-technical environment of Industry 4.0 involving cobots on an individual, team, and organizational level.

 

Relevant Related Projects on Industry 4.0 and Cobots

 

MAXimizeMe 2021-2023

MAXimizeMe 2021-2023

In MAXimizeMe, we aim to achieve a better understanding of how aspects, such as age...

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AssistMe 2015-2017

AssistMe 2015-2017

In this project, we developed innovative interaction means for cobots in the factory…

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Contextual Interfaces 2009-2016

Contextual Interfaces 2009-2016

Within the factory module of this Christian Doppler Laboratory we investigated existing and...

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Relevant Related Publications on Industry 4.0 and Cobots

 

2021

Weiss, Astrid; Wortmeier, Ann-Kathrin; Kubicek, Bettina

Cobots in Industry 4.0: A Roadmap for Future Practice Studies on Human--Robot Collaboration Artikel

In: IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 2021.

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2016

Weiss, Astrid; Huber, Andreas; Minichberger, Jürgen; Ikeda, Markus

First Application of Robot Teaching in an Existing Industry 4.0 Environment: Does It Really Work? Artikel

In: Societies, 6 (3), S. 20, 2016.

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2015

Weiss, Astrid; Meschtscherjakov, Alexander; Buchner, Roland; Strasser, Ewald; Kluckner, Patricia M; Osswald, Sebastian; Mirnig, Nicole; Wilfinger, David; Perterer, Nicole; Sundstroem, Petra; Laminger, Arno; Tscheligi, Manfred

Exploring challenging environments: Contextual research in the car and the factory through an HCI lens Buchkapitel

In: Wulf, Volker; Schmidt, Kjeld; Randall, David (Hrsg.): Designing Socially Embedded Technologies in the Real-World, S. 271–304, Springer London, 2015.

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2013

Osswald, Sebastian; Weiss, Astrid; Tscheligi, Manfred

Designing wearable devices for the factory: Rapid contextual experience prototyping Konferenzbeitrag

In: 2013 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS), S. 517-521, 2013, ISSN: null.

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Buchner, Roland; Kluckner, Patricia M; Weiss, Astrid; Tscheligi, Manfred

Assisting maintainers in the semiconductor factory: iterative co-design of a mobile interface and a situated display Konferenzbeitrag

In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, S. 1–2, 2013.

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2012

Buchner, Roland; Mirnig, Nicole; Weiss, Astrid; Tscheligi, Manfred

Evaluating in real life robotic environment: Bringing together research and practice Konferenzbeitrag

In: 2012 IEEE RO-MAN: The 21st IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, S. 602-607, 2012, ISSN: 1944-9445.

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Kluckner, Patricia M; Buchner, Roland; Weiss, Astrid; Tscheligi, Manfred

Repair Now: Collaboration between Maintainers, Operators and Equipment in a Cleanroom Konferenzbeitrag

In: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work Companion, S. 143–146, Association for Computing Machinery, Seattle, Washington, USA, 2012, ISBN: 9781450310512.

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