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How older people benefit from automated driving technologies
Due to demographic change, the proportion of older people is constantly increasing, and as a consequence their participation in transport is rising. At the same time, automated driving technologies w
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Digilog 2020
The final event of the Digilog 2020 is organized as a hybrid event by Social City Vienna on behalf of the Chamber of Labour Vienna. Markus Murtinger from the Center for Technology Experience was invi
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Covid-19 simulator confirms effectiveness of current protective measures in Austria
The Covid-19 simulator, a computer-based aerosol and movement tool from PwC Austria, examines the effectiveness of protective measures in public spaces. Among other things, an interdisciplinary resea
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Distancing Market
A robot dog that reminds you to keep the safety distance? Distance vests that shine? And how can technology promote cohesion? The COVID-19 crisis and the resulting health conditions require different
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AIT Workshop at CHI 2021 – Call for Papers
Automation is transforming traditional workplaces and work processes tremendously. While automated systems are no longer restricted to manufacturing environments but pervade various work domains in m
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Artificial intelligence in process management
Building-Information Modelling (BIM) has increasing relevance in the planning, construction and operation of buildings. Under which conditions do employees trust the „digital twin“. How can trustwort
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Time-slot management made easy
The innovative ticketing & time slot system "Ticcu" avoids queues, shortens waiting times and enables flawless visitor management through defined time slots. Thus, the PopUp Ticketing & Time
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Spawnpoint
During the event, developers from the industry who want to develop gaming into an accessible medium will be given a platform to present themselves. In addition, streamers/gamers will talk about their
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"ZeroQ" identifies food and handles payment process
ZeroQ" - the name is derived from "zero queue" - is an intuitive app for efficient processes in the gastronomy sector. Users pick up food from a serving point and take it directly to their seat. Ther
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Closer Apart – A Conversation with Bill Buxton
The challenging year of 2020 has shown how important technology is in keeping our social and working lives together. How do we create closeness despite distance? What did we learn from recent technol
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Manfred Tscheligi receives the prestigious IFIP TC13 Pioneer Award
Manfred Tscheligi, Head of the Center for Technology Experience at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology and professor at the University of Salzburg, together with five other researchers from Euro
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Motivation in sports through robot-assisted coaching
Motivation systems used in health and leisure contexts rely mainly on screen-based virtual trainers and peers connected via social networks as main motivators. In working contexts, information and ga
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European Project “AWARD” to Autonomize Heavy-Duty Vehicles
In the large-scale European research project "AWARD", automated transport vehicles for logistics applications are to be made all-weather capable and thus more widely usable. The AIT Austrian Institut
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AIT Expertise for a barriere-free TEI Conference
TEI is the conference for Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction and was organised online this year by the University of Salzburg. The ACM International Conference addresses issues of human-comp
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Mobile assistant for individual and cross-transport mobility
What must a digital mobility assistant be able to do in order to provide all user groups with easy access to a wide range of future mobility services? Researchers from AIT have analysed trends in dig
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European Defence Agency Service Framework Contract awarded to AIT
Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) threats and risks are characterised by a rather low probability of occurrence with an extremely high potential impact. These threats are changing
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Human-Computer-Interaction from 1980 to 2021
The radio programme Data Points in the Information Age rolls up the development of the information society in the 20th century on the basis of events and moments in the history of technology. What ex
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Human-centred AI research
The future will bring a growing number of interactive encounters between users and artificial intelligence (AI), in which AI systems make explicit or implicit decisions. This results in a demand for
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Virtual Health and Wellbeing Living Lab Infrastructure
On the 1st of April 2021 the Horizon 2020 VITALISE project officially kicked off. The full name of the 3-years duration project is “Virtual Health and Wellbeing Living Lab Infrastructure” and it was
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Learning for the climate from the Corona crisis
"Flattening the curve" - this is a slogan in the fight against the Corona crisis; a slogan that can also be applied to the climate crisis. Here, too, it is necessary to flatten the curve of CO2 emiss