Speaker: Prof. Shivakumar Sastry
Timing: 11th July 2023 (Tuesday); 11:00 AM – 12:00 Noon IST
Venue : SVN Auditorium, IAP
Abstract:
Increasing digital transformation and data-driven practices have created a demand for new skills at the human-technology frontier in health, defense, energy, and other manufacturing industries. Future workers must adopt complex digital tools, models, processes, and data into their work and contextualize the work in the digital thread. They must appreciate the nuanced connections across functional of their work, design, engineering and manufacturing constraints, and the demands imposed by operations and maintenance activities. We discuss a no-code platform that provides in-situ, just-in-time, informatics through AR devices that guides workers to complete task sequences, navigate workspaces, and communicate in real-time when support is needed while assuring safety of both workers and the workspace. The system can capture experiences of the workers and update the content to promote inter-generational knowledge-transfer. We also discuss the importance of participatory action research and multidisciplinary authoring of AR content in operationalizing such a system. Our key interest is the design of systems and practices that promote the adoption of AR systems in a variety of training and education scenarios that will empower future workers to fully engage in digital transformation and thrive in evolving work contexts.
Biography:
Dr. Shivakumar Sastry (1987, IISc Electrical Engineering Alum) is a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Director of Strategic Initiatives at The University of Akron. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering and Science from Case Western Reserve University and earned master’s degrees in computer science from University of Central Florida and in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Science. His research interests are in Networked Embedded Systems, Systems Engineering and Visualization. Prior to joining Akron, he was a Senior Research Scientist with Rockwell Automation. Currently, Dr. Sastry is a consultant at ARTPARK where he is focused on skilling activites.