Category: Wearable Computing
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BMW Global Knowledge Day
Dr Fridolin Wild of the Performance Augmentation Lab gave an invited lecture on how to use Augmented Reality for training in production to engineers at BMW’s Global Knowledge Day on Thursday, February 23. The event was live streamed from Oxford to Munich and the other German plants, the British plants…
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Putting Magic into the Workplace
Much of the magic from our childhood novels has become technically feasible, but we can also use these same super powers to put a bit of magic into industrial workplaces, enhancing human performance through live guidance. Dr. Wild’s talk picks three magic examples (shape shifting, levitation, apparition) and shows how…
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CfP: 12th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning
The 12th European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning 12-15 September 2017, Tallinn University, Tallinn, Estonia http://www.ec-tel.eu The European Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) engages researchers, practitioners, educational developers, entrepreneurs and policy makers to address current challenges and advances in the field. This year’s theme of ‘Data Driven Approaches in Digital Education’…
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CfP: Special Track on Wearable-technology Enhanced Learning (WELL)
at the Immersive Learning Research Network Conference iLRN 2017 June 26-29, 2017, Coimbra, Portugal https://immersivelrn.org/ilrn2017/ Topic of the Special Track Wearable technologies – such as smart watches, smart glasses, smart objects, smart earbuds, or smart garments – are just starting to transform immersive user experience into formal education and learning…
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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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What’s next after ‘talking to god’?
The user interface for artificial intelligences needs a major overhaul. That’s why innovators like Volume Global, the IBM Watson development partner, turn to robots and augmented reality to explore, what the next generation of user interfaces could look like. When visiting Volume Global in Wokingham last week, Nigel Crook, Fridolin…
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Testing the Microsoft HoloLens
In the context of Pearson (the AR/VR development team) visiting recently, we had a chance to try out the new Microsoft HoloLens. An impressive device, clear and crisp images, fantastic environmental mapping, with already some very interesting apps available. The pictures show Dr Wild and Dr Kamal operate mixed reality…
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Call for makers
We’re running a workshop for makers of wearable solutions on Friday, September 16th, 2016, at the 11th European Conference for Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) in Lyon, France. It is dedicated to demonstrating prototypes and sharing experiences with wearable enhanced learning both with respect to hardware as well as software. Wearable…
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Research Centre presentation: WEKIT
Dr. Fridolin Wild (Senior Research Fellow and Scientific Director of WEKIT) spoke about Wearables Enhanced Knowledge Intensive Training (WEKIT). Augmented reality and wearables are potential game changers, re-inventing the way we perceive and work with information. In the publicly-funded WEKIT project (Horizon 2020), we explore experience capturing with AR and…