AI-based future experience and VR for aluminum recycling
With AI Branching Foresight, AIT will present an interactive scenario tool at Software Day that helps people sharpen their view of their own future and reflect on their actions. Developed at the AIT Center for Technology Experience, the system generates alternative future paths based on the user's own decisions and makes their consequences tangible. The AI does not act as an authoritarian authority, but rather as a thinking and structuring aid. The tool was developed as part of the FFG-funded GreenTouch project and is deliberately designed to be generic – with possible applications ranging from strategic foresight and management training to education and coaching formats.
The AIT Center for Technology Experience also has many years of experience in the field of extended reality (XR), particularly for training and education in a wide range of industries and areas of application.
Software Day will feature a VR demonstrator for aluminum scrap recycling, which clearly visualizes the results of the RecAL research project led by the Ranshofen Light Metal Center (recently awarded the ÖGUT Prize). In an immersive environment, visitors can follow the path of various aluminum scrap parts through the RecAL Hub—from collection to the newly recycled product. The hub connects players along the value chain and uses AI-supported decision support to identify optimal recycling and upcycling paths as well as so-called Circular Amplification Technologies (CATs).
AI: Focus on benefits and responsibility
The AIT Center for Digital Safety & Security presents three groundbreaking research projects currently underway in the field of AI and data science:
The AI4PT project is developing data protection-conscious AI solutions to increase the efficiency and attractiveness of public transport. By forecasting and optimizing passenger flows, the aim is to reduce congestion and avoid delays – especially on busy routes with frequent services.
AI4EcoServices addresses existing data gaps in environmental and biodiversity monitoring in Austria. By combining satellite images, time series data, and machine learning, soil conditions such as moisture and temperature are analyzed in high resolution. The aim is to give greater consideration to forests as an active adaptation strategy to climate change and to create a sound basis for decision-making on environmental and nature conservation measures.
With FAIR-AI, AIT is addressing the social and regulatory challenges associated with the use of artificial intelligence. The central question here is: How can the use of AI be designed in an ethical manner?
FAIR-AI aims to create a comprehensive “handbook for applied trustworthy AI.” The goal is to bundle results, guidelines, and recommendations and make the developed tools available on a freely accessible platform. This will provide the AI community with a supportive toolset and instructions to help them easily adapt to new regulations and strengthen their competitiveness in the long term.
AIT speaker at Software Day
1:40 p.m.
After-lunch keynote: Intelligent XR – The Next Step of Immersion
Markus Murtinger, Deputy Head, AIT Center for Technology Experience
2:20 p.m.
Rigorous Software Design and Verification for AI-enabled Cyber Physical Systems
Dejan Nickovic, Senior Scientist, AIT Center for Digital Safety & Security
Program and information: www.softwareday.at (in German)
The AIT is member of the: Association of Austrian Software Innovations