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This paper reflects on the design challenges related to designing novel information technology for the domain of emergency response. The reflection is grounded in the concrete design objectives of a major European R&D project focussing on the novel information technology of wearable computing. Based on a concrete discussion of these challenges, the design objective is framed as supporting the...
With the wearIT@work project the European Commission and 42 partners from 16 countries invested into a new technology empowering mobile workers. The first 42 months of this project are over and industrial demonstrators, evaluations and results and an exploitation strategy are available. Beside the four application domains of maintenance, production, healthcare and emergency response further domains...
Today's requirements in production process efficiency combined with their increasing complexity represent a great challenge for staff members at all levels (from the assembly worker to the plant manager). The ultimate goal is the fine-tuning of the production process to perfectly fulfil customer orders and to keep the overall efficiency at high levels. Through scenarios based on real situations, and...
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