Category: Projects
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Keynote on TEL for Industry 4.0
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…
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Guest lecture on ‘Work 4.0’ to the universities of Bielefeld and Paderborn
Dr Fridolin Wild from the Performance Augmentation Lab gave a ring lecture in the postgraduate school ‘Work 4.0’ of North Rhine-Westfalia, Germany, focusing on how Augmented Reality and Wearable solutions can be used to support workers in manufacturing in up-skilling on the job. The postgraduate school is jointly organised by…
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Job offer: PhD Candidate in AR for Maritime Training
Our WEKIT project partner, the Department of Engineering and Safety (IIS) of The Arctic University of Norway (UiT), has a PhD position vacant for applicants who wish to obtain the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD). The position is affiliated with IIS and closely linked with the Advanced maritime ship operations…
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#OxEngage special event on AR/VR
Last Friday, February 24, Dr Fridolin Wild and Will Guest gave an invited talk on and demonstration of Augmented Reality technologies for improving human work performance in a special event focusing on AR/VR as part of the #OxEngage event series. #OxEngage is organised by Oxford University’s IT service in collaboration…
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Will AR and wearables revolutionize training in Industry 4.0?
Online Educa Berlin saw an expert panel from the H2020-funded WEKIT project present and discuss whether the future of training and learning at the workplace will radically change its form, abandoning books, class rooms, and learning management systems to turn to smart glasses, live guidance, and in situ training. Fridolin…
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Grand Challenges in Research in e-Education
Dr Fridolin Wild will be giving a keynote at the Orphee Rendezvous in Font Romeu, France, to help shape the future research agenda of the French technology-enhanced learning R&D community. Orphee is a network of networks with over 30 partner organisations. The retreat takes place January 31 and February 1,…
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New magazine launched: TCBL _zine
The inaugural issue of the TCBL _zine is out in the iPad book stores – for FREE – and filled to the brim with valuable knowledge nuggets for the Textile & Clothing businesses. Six articles summarise key trends and recent developments ranging from the insights into new production technologies, via…
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From online retailer to online retainer
Innovation in business models in textiles and clothing is coming from online retailers, reorganising the value creation chain from supplier-driven backwards integration to customer-driven forward integration, so Lutz Walter (Eurotex) at today’s TCBL conference in Huddersfield, UK. Shopping for clothes will change as dreams clash with reality: the shopping experience…
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Textiles & Clothing Business Labs
The TCBL project, short for Textile and Clothing Business Labs aims to renew the European Textile & Clothing (T&C) sector. The T&C industry faces new and significant opportunities based on new production and distribution technologies, innovative organisational models, and new creative energies. In parallel, customers are showing increasing attention to…
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Wearable experience for knowledge intensive training
Launched on 1 December 2015, WEKIT is an ambitious European research and innovation project supported under Horizon 2020 to develop and test within three years a novel way of industrial training enabled by smart wearable technology (WT). With EUR 2.7 million of EU funding, thirteen WEKIT partners representing academia, including…