Theia-XR
THEIAXR
| funding: | European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation program, HORIZON-CL4-2022-HUMAN-01-14: "eXtended Reality Technologies" |
| grant agreement: | No. 101092861 |
| partners: |
TTControl GmbH TTTech Computertechnik AG (affiliated entity) Technische Universität Graz Hochschule der Medien Université du Luxembourg Teknologian Tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy Creanex Oy Haption SA Prinoth SPA Cargotec Finland Oy |
| duration: | 01/2023 - 12/2025 |
| contact: | Volker Waurich |
THEIAXR is a European research project (Horizon Europe CL4-2022-HUMAN-01-14) running for 3 years that aims at improving human-machine interaction in mobile machinery by enhancing user technology fit and extending reality technologies and functionalities. The results will make the invisible visible respectively the non-perceivable perceivable to the human operator, extending the perceivable range of the operator without negatively influencing the performance of the human while controlling the machinery.
THEIAXR will leverage a human-centered transdisciplinary and scenario-based co-design methodology with users, stakeholders, and multidisciplinary researchers as a fully integrated project team. This methodology serves to collect human requirements and to design, develop and deploy extended reality technologies for information presentation and interaction in the off-highway domain. The targeted extended reality technologies will enhance conventional human-machine interfaces through multimodal information and interaction technologies, deploying innovative data visualization methods, force feedback technology, and acoustic information.
The THEIAXR project will deliver the following key innovations:
- Extended Reality Technologies applicable to state-of-the-art operating environments (cabin-based and tele-operational) to make the invisible visible to the human operator. Combination of enhanced visualizations (AR) with sound and haptic feedback that increases the accessibility of extensive digital data related to physical reality.
- XR interaction concepts and design principles that facilitate a human-friendly and intuitive design of XR interaction in industrial applications also enable further users to cover the three fundamental aspects of human technology development, i.e., human states, capabilities, and experiences/technology potential and capabilities/task and environmental requirements.
- A transdisciplinary co-design methodology to design and develop multimodal XR information presentation and interaction solutions that enable intuitive, user-friendly, secure, trustworthy, positively experienced, and highly accepted off-highway machine workplaces that can be transferred to comparable technology developments.
