IST Project Fact Sheet
Empowering the mobile worker by wearable computing (WEARIT@WORK)
Funded under 6th FWP (Sixth Framework Programme)
Action Line: IST-2002-2.3.2.6 Applications and services for the mobile user and worker
Project URL: http://www.wearitatwork.com
| Coordinator |
| Contact Person: Name: HERZOG, OTTHEIN
Tel: +49-421-2187090 Fax: +49-421-2187196 Email: Contact |
| Organisation:
UNIVERSITAET BREMEN CENTER FOR COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES (TZI) - UNIVERSIT?BREMEN BIBLIOTHEKSTRASSE 1 Postfach 330440 28359 BREMEN GERMANY |
Wearable mobile computing empowers professionals to higher levels of productivity. It provides effective forms of access to knowledge and computing power anywhere and in any situation. The new technology-paradigm meets the growing demand on European professionals to become more flexible and efficient in an increasingly challenging work environment. Wearable computing will improve productivity because it allows workers to complete more complex tasks in less time and with less effort. wearIT@work will develop a core technology in the transition of the European economy to a service-centred economy, as a result of which new jobs and economic growth in Europe will be generated.
Europe should take the lead in exploiting this unique potential of job creation, job enhancement, and economic growth. Because the mobile computing solutions of today are still too complex, too obtrusive, and too demanding on the user to be seamlessly integrated into complex work-processes, their usability in industrial scenarios and their acceptance by the workers is still limited. wearIT@work takes the next important step of innovation: it will develop a new paradigm for wearable mobile computing that supports complex tasks with a minimum of human-machine interaction and thereby enables mobile professionals to keep their attention focused on the interaction with the work environment.
A new software and hardware platform will be created in which professionals can be mobile and at the same time fully integrated into the surrounding IT infrastructure. The new technology will have a long-term impact on the organization of individual and collaborative work and create new ways to organize work. The feasibility of the wearIT@work approach will be tested in a set of real-world pilot applications. In a close feedback-loop, experiences made in the pilots will be used to optimize methods and tools and to prove the usability of wearable mobile computing in industrial settings.
| Project details |
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Project Acronym: WEARIT@WORK Project Reference: 004216 Start Date: 2004-06-01 Duration: 60 months Project Cost: 23.38 million euro Contract Type: Integrated Project End Date: 2009-05-31 Project Status: Completed Project Funding: 14.3 million euro |
| Participants | |
| IN2 SEARCH INTERFACES DEVELOPMENT LIMITED | UNITED KINGDOM | MULTITEL ASBL | BELGIUM | EIDGENoSSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZuRICH | SWITZERLAND | UNIVERSITaT PASSAU | GERMANY | EUROPEAN AERONAUTIC DEFENCE AND SPACE COMPANY EADS FRANCE SAS | FRANCE | BIBA - BREMER INSTITUT FUER PRODUKTION UND LOGISTIK GMBH | GERMANY | COMUNITA MONTANA DELLA LUNIGIANA | ITALY | ACTVALUE CONSULTING & SOLUTIONS SRL | ITALY | MOBILE SOLUTION GROUP GMBH | GERMANY | INFOCONSULT GESELLSCHAFT FUER INFORMATIONSTECHNIK MBH | GERMANY | STICHTING HOGESCHOOL VOOR DE KUNSTEN UTRECHT | NETHERLANDS | GIUNTI LABS S.R.L. | ITALY | GRADO ZERO ESPACE SRL | ITALY | SYSTEMA HUMAN INFORMATION SYSTEMS GMBH | AUSTRIA | MOBILERA BILISIM VE ILETISIM TEKNOLOJILERI TICARET A.S. | TURKEY | OBEROESTERREICHISCHE GESUNDHEITS- UND SPITALS-AG | AUSTRIA | MOBILE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY A/S | DENMARK | IONIAN TECHN LTD. | GREECE | PREFECTURE DE POLICE DE PARIS | FRANCE | SKODA AUTO A.S. | CZECH REPUBLIC | HEWLETT PACKARD ITALIANA SRL | ITALY | ROSENBAUER INTERNATIONAL AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT | AUSTRIA | CORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | IRELAND | FUNDACION TEKNIKER | SPAIN | COMARCH S.A. | POLAND | EDNA PASHER PHD & ASSOCIATES MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT LTD | ISRAEL | ENTE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E L'AMBIENTE | ITALY | CARL ZEISS | GERMANY | FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V | GERMANY | THALES COMMUNICATIONS S.A. | FRANCE | TEAM TECNOLOGIA ENERGIA AMBIENTE MATERIALI S.R.L. | ITALY | UNIVERSITAET PADERBORN | GERMANY | UNITY AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT FUER UNTERNEHMENSFUEHRUNG UND INFORMATIONSTECHNOLOGIE | GERMANY | LULEA TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET | SWEDEN | SAP AG | GERMANY | DOCOMO COMMUNICATIONS LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBH | GERMANY | SIEMENS AG | GERMANY |
- Record Control Number: 71921
- Update Date: 2009-11-23 09:17:33.0
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