Untethered Workspaces: A Zones Concept Towards Supporting Operator Movements
in Control Rooms
Case Study: Tools for Workers
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Domova, Veronika
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Azhar, Saad
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Ralph, Maria
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Brönmark, Jonas
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.680-689
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Within industrial domains there is a need for control room operators to be
in constant contact with the different processes they are responsible for
controlling. With this responsibility comes the need to constantly be near
their workstations in order to monitor, diagnose and quickly troubleshoot
issues presented. These workstations, however, restrict operators in control
rooms from moving freely within the control room itself, such as between their
own and their colleague's workstations since they cannot interact with the
system from a distance. These systems also restrict those operators who need to
continuously enter the control room from the plant/factory floor since
interacting with process graphics requires them to remove all of their
specialized equipment every time (e.g. large bulky safety gloves). We therefore
present a concept for control room operators that supports their untethering
from dedicated workstations, providing them with the ability to interact in a
more flexible way.
Applying augmented reality to industrial settings
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Vartiainen, Elina
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Boberg, Peder
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Qvarnström, Oskar
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Brönmark, Jonas
Proceedings of the 2013 Augmented Human International Conference
2013-03-07
p.244
© Copyright 2013 ACM
Summary: State-of-the-art mobile devices containing various sensors and interaction
technologies have enabled the development of novel solutions for people working
in industrial settings. In particular, introducing augmented reality into the
mobile device domain could help maintenance engineers while they perform work
tasks in a factory. This poster presents and discusses two concepts that
explore how maintenance engineers could use augmented reality to view
additional information related to equipment found in a factory setting.
