ImmerSafe - Immersive Visual Technologies for Safety-critical Applications

In many contexts – heavy work machines, emergency response, control centres – human operators face complex and demanding situations where their decisions can have far-reaching consequences on productivity, environment, and even human lives. In order to deal with such challenges, the operator needs full situational awareness, which can be achieved by sensing relevant visual data about the operating environment, refining it into mission-critical information, and presenting it in an immersive, intuitively comprehensible manner. This can be achieved by Immersive Visual Technologies (IVT) delivering ultra-realistic and interactive visual experience. The development of such IVT will be the main target of the ImmerSAFE project.

ImmerSAFE is a four year (2018-2021) H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network that brings together 9 beneficiaries and 5 partner organizations from Finland, Sweden, Norway, Croatia, Italy, and Switzerland, with the aim of training a new generation of multi-disciplinary experts, who have an understanding of the core imaging technologies, the requirements set to them by the safety-critical applications and who can account for the human user in the design of such systems.

The newly hired 15 early stage researchers (ESR) will contribute through their individual research projects to following work packages:

• WP1: Immersive visual technologies, addressing the problems related to sensing, processing and transmission of visual data
• WP2: Embedded systems for safety-critical applications, focusing on system aspects of developed technologies
• WP3: User experience, system performance and organizational change, addressing the user requirements in safety-critical applications

The research will be supported by an extensive training program consisting of webinars, training schools and ImmerSAFE tech days. At the end of the project, the newly trained experts will be able to seize the great opportunity for innovations offered by the emerging field of IVT for Europe’s high-tech industries.

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Towards Assessing Risk of Reality Augmented Safety-critical Socio-technical Systems (Oct 2019)
Soheila Sheikh Bahaei, Barbara Gallina
6th International Symposium on Model-Based Safety and Assessment (IMBSA -2019)

Augmented Reality-extended Humans: Towards a Taxonomy of Failures – Focus on Visual Technologies (Sep 2019)
Soheila Sheikh Bahaei, Barbara Gallina
29th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL-2019)

1st Workshop on User Interfaces for Heavy Vehicles: Let’s Get to Work (Sep 2019)
Markus Wallmyr, Lewis Chuang , Taufik Akbar Sitompul
11th International ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutoUI'19)

Towards Assessing the Risk of the Effect of Augmented Reality on Human Failures (Sep 2019)
Soheila Sheikh Bahaei, Barbara Gallina
38th International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security (SAFECOMP 2019)

Analyzing Online Videos: a Complement to Field Studies in Remote Locations (Sep 2019)
Taufik Akbar Sitompul, Markus Wallmyr
17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2019)

Evaluating Mixed Reality Notifications to Support Excavator Operator Awareness (Sep 2019)
Markus Wallmyr, Taufik Akbar Sitompul, Tobias Holstein, Rikard Lindell
17th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2019)