The director of PAL, Dr Fridolin Wild, presented a keynote to the audience of the 12th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL’17, Tallinn, Estonia).
Industry 4.0 is on the rise and this coordinated push for automation, big data, and internet-of-things in the smart factory is already causing (and will continue to) disruption in the job market. New skills for ‘new collar’ jobs are needed and intelligent assistance systems with Augmented Reality, Smart Glasses, and other forms of wearable computing may help to deliver them.
In this talk, Dr. Wild introduced to the concept of Performance Augmentation and illustrated how challenges for the future can be met at the hand of several examples of intelligent training and live guidance applications in aircraft maintenance, space assembly, and medical diagnostics.