Title: Joint project SmartWerk: Conception and testing of context-sensitive, multimodal human-technology interfaces for intelligent assistance systems in the construction and finishing trades; sub-project of the TU Kaiserslautern: User and workplace studies and ELSI

Participants in the joint project: Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Institute for Cybernetic Planning and Building (ikpb Kaiserslautern), German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI Kaiserslautern), imc (information multimedia communication AG, Saarbrücken), xCon Partner GmbH (Bremen)

Sub-project management: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lachmann

Other participants: Junior Prof. Dr. Jochen Mayerl

Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); funding measure IKT2020-Innovative interfaces between people and technology

Funding volume of the sub-project: €148,000

Duration: December 2014 to November 2017

Content:

The aim of the joint project is to design and test context-sensitive, multimodal human-technology interfaces for intelligent assistance systems in the construction and finishing trades, taking into account ethical, data protection and social issues. Based on user and workplace studies in cooperating medium-sized companies, as well as experiments to clarify relevant attention processes, the corresponding activities on the construction site are cognitively modeled to ensure the later effectiveness and user-friendliness of the end products