Human-Technology Interaction: Shaping the Future of Industrial User Interfaces

Digitalization and automation are leading to fundamental changes in the industrial landscape. In the German-speaking countries, this development is often summarized under the term Industry 4.0. Simultaneously, interaction technologies have made huge developments in the last decades. The use of mobile devices and touch screens is ubiquitous, augmented and virtual reality technologies have made their way into the market and new interaction concepts have become established. While new interaction technologies offer new possibilities for organizing or executing work in the context of Industry 4.0, the transformation of industrial processes also creates a need for new work practices.

This book sheds light on the interplay of Industry 4.0 and new interaction technologies. It presents selected research articles on the topic of Human-Technology Interaction in the context of Industry 4.0. Researchers from various disciplines present the current state of research with regard to future interactions with production environments to develop a common vision of how to design future interactions in the industrial domain.

In this context, various topics are covered: a detailed overview on assistive systems for supporting manual work is given, including technological and design aspects as well as implementation strategies. Industrial use-cases for extended reality (XR) technologies such as augmented and virtual reality (AR and VR) are presented, also covering aspects of how to author content in XR environments. The role of new work practices is examined, for example, by presenting concepts of gamification and human-machine teamwork for supporting well-being. Finally, topics of trust and technology acceptance are discussed in the context of Industry 4.0. Given this broad perspective, a vision is sketched of how to design future human-technology interactions in a way that realizes their full technical and human potential.

數位化和自動化正在引領工業領域的根本變革。在德語國家，這一發展通常被總結為工業4.0。與此同時，互動技術在過去幾十年中取得了巨大的發展。移動設備和觸控屏的使用已經無所不在，擴增和虛擬現實技術已經進入市場，並且新的互動概念已經得到確立。新的互動技術為在工業4.0背景下組織或執行工作提供了新的可能性，同時工業流程的轉型也創造了對新工作實踐的需求。

本書闡明了工業4.0和新互動技術之間的相互作用。它介紹了關於工業4.0背景下人與技術互動的選定研究文章。來自不同學科的研究人員介紹了關於未來與生產環境互動的研究現狀，以發展一個共同的願景，設計未來在工業領域中的互動方式。

在這個背景下，涵蓋了各種主題：提供了關於支持手動工作的輔助系統的詳細概述，包括技術和設計方面以及實施策略。介紹了擴增和虛擬現實（AR和VR）等擴展現實技術在工業應用案例中的使用，還涵蓋了在擴展現實環境中如何創建內容的方面。探討了新工作實踐的角色，例如通過介紹遊戲化和人機協作的概念來支持福祉。最後，討論了在工業4.0背景下的信任和技術接受的主題。在這個廣泛的視角下，勾勒出了如何設計未來人與技術互動的願景，以實現其完整的技術和人類潛力。

Carsten Röcker is deputy director of the Institute Industrial IT, professor for Human-Technology Interaction at TH OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts and head of the research group on Intelligent Assistance System at the Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB). His current research interests revolve around intelligent systems, human-computer interaction and technology acceptance.

Sebastian Büttner is working as a researcher in the Human-Centered Information Systems group at Clausthal University of Technology. Prior to this, he was a doctoral student at TH OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts and conducted research on the topic of projection-based augmented reality in industrial settings.

Carsten Röcker是工業資訊技術研究所的副所長，也是TH OWL應用科學與藝術大學的人機科技互動教授，同時也是Fraunhofer光學、系統技術和影像利用研究所（IOSB）智能輔助系統研究小組的負責人。他目前的研究興趣包括智能系統、人機互動和技術接受度。

Sebastian Büttner在Clausthal科技大學的人本資訊系統研究小組擔任研究員。在此之前，他是TH OWL應用科學與藝術大學的博士生，並在工業環境中進行了基於投影的擴增實境的研究。