THEIA-XR

Design Guidelines for Privacy and Ethics - Your input is highly valued! With our work, like many great projects in XR and beyond, we are at the forefront of technological innovation. And, there are always considerations along the technological progress. How can we ensure that e.g., the XR technologies we bring into the workflow don't lead to surveillance, inequality, performance judgment, or other risks like overreliance on XR features? In THEIA-XR, these considerations play a central role. As one of the project results, we have developed Design Guidelines for Privacy and Ethics - and are still improving these. This is, where we are asking our network to support us in providing feedback to our guidelines. If you have experience with ethics/privacy issues in XR/AR/VR/MR, or if you've worked in the Off-Highway machinery domain (like with excavators, snow groomers, reachstackers, #agriculture, #forestry, etc.), or both, please fill out our questionnaire: https://lnkd.in/esEykjgf Your input will help us improving the guidelines, make them more actionable and understand what is missing. Thank you very much for your support! And if you are looking for more information or want to get in touch with our experts, don't hesitate to contact Anastasia Sergeeva from University of Luxembourg. #ethics #privacy #extendedreality #offhighway #heavyduty #horizoneu

Our project coordinator Martijn Rooker has been at the EU XR Projects Meeting presenting our project and discussing with other #H2020 and #HorizonEurope #XR / #VR projects. Thanks a lot to all projects and their representatives being present and of course thanks a lot for the kind invitation. #cooperation #innovation #extendedreality #heavyduty #offhighway

We are happy to welcome our eXtended Reality EU-funded projects today in Brussels for a networking session and exchange of views. Here is part 1 of a video with all the projects attending - plenty of exciting, useful and innovative research! Stay tuned for part 2 :-)

THEIA-XR in a nutshell 🚧 Listen to Martijn Rooker, coordinator of the THEIA-XR project who explains you THEIA-XR in a nutshell. Curious to find more about what the current achievements of the project are? Then stay tuned for the next edition of our newsletter coming very soon. https://lnkd.in/dAsB5Ghr #horizoneu #offhighway #heavyduty #extendedreality #xr #eufunded #innovation TTControl

📍 Meeting XR related projects financed under H2020 and Horizon Europe Upon invitaiton of DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, CONTENT AND TECHNOLOGY we are looking forward meeting XR related projects financed under H2020 and Horizon Europe on February 11th. Our project coordinator Martijn Rooker TTControl will present THEIA-XR and exchange with the other projects TRANSMIXR, XReco, MAX-R, EMIL, XR4Human Project, SUNxr.he, Sharespace.EU, DIDYMOS-XR Project, OPENVERSE, Popular, XTREME, Luminous, Presence, Heat, INDUX-R, XR2Industry, XR5.0 Project, MotivateXR, CORTEX2 2, Spirit, Master, XR2Learn, XR4ED, AdMiRe, ARETE, eTryOn Project, HoviTron, PrismArch and VR2Care. #horizoneu #offhighway #heavyduty #extendedreality #xr

👀 UX Design Award Nomination 👀 Congrats to the team of Technische Universität Dresden Industrial Design Engineering | td for the nomination to the UX Design Award for the light feedback system as part of the #construction use case. The light feedback system enables #operators to access advanced digital assistance information directly through peripheral visual perception while focusing on the tool outside the cabin. This provides improved awareness and reduces dependencies on display-based interfaces that are often perceived as too complex and difficult to understand. The product enables more intuitive and easy-to-use access to digital data to improve user experience, acceptance, and use of digital #innovations. You can support us by giving your vote to the colleagues until February 25 (link in comments)! #XR #innovation #horizoneu UX Design Awards Sebastian Lorenz Richard Morgenstern Tim Breitbarth Volker Waurich #heavyduty #offhighway https://lnkd.in/d5qcERFd

Consortium Meeting in Sterzing We are thanking all participants to the THEIA-XR consortium for their great contribution and our host Prinoth for the kind hospitality. This consortium meeting marked the start of our third and final project year and the directions to go are set. Besides the status of the use cases and general status of work packages, there have been intensive workshops on: 🔺 Exploitation paving the way for future sustainability 🔺 Privacy and ethics in xr development 🔺 Highlight events like bauma and Interalpin coming up We are looking forward to further intensifying our activities and taking you along the road to finally make the invisible visible. #horizoneu #offhighway #heavyduty #extendedreality #xr #eufunded

Design Guidelines for Privacy and Ethics - Your input is still highly valued! Today, we are sharing a video of Anastasia Sergeeva on this topic and we are still looking for input to our questionnaire. If you have experience with ethics/privacy issues in XR/AR/VR/MR, or if you've worked in the Off-Highway machinery domain (like with excavators, snow groomers, reach stackers, agriculture, forestry, etc.), or both, please fill out our questionnaire (link in comments). Your input will help us improving the guidelines, make them more actionable and understand what is missing. The survey is still open until Jan 15. https://lnkd.in/d7ydxAQ5 #ethics #privacy #extendedreality #offhighway #heavyduty #horizoneu

⭐ Season Greetings ⭐ This year 2024 coming to an end also represents our second project year coming to an end. It has been a great year with many results generated, great exchange with our sister projects and beyond and many highlight events where we showcased our project and its results. We would like to take this opportunity to thank our consortium partners and all organisations, associations and friends supporting us. We are looking forward to the coming, 3rd year of our project and are wishing you a wonderful festive season and all the best to start 2025. #seasongreetings ##extendedreality #offhighway #horizoneu

Dear all! I wanted to share a couple of photos from the Stereopsia in Brussels last week. In short, it was an incredible experience with lots of cool projects that were super relevant to my work. A big thank you to the amazing organizers, to Alexandra GERARD and the entire Stereopsia team for the warm welcome! Thanks also to all the presenters and colleagues from other projects for the great conversations, idea exchanges, and prototype testing! Special shoutout to the folks working on privacy and ethics in XR from the XRSI Europe and XR4Human Project projects Valentino Megale, PhD 🥽, Luis Bravo Martins, Alina Kadlubsky, Rigmor Baraas You are awesome, and I look forward to collaborating on our topics of ethical, privacy-preserving and secure XR! Last but not least - thanks to my amazing colleagues from THEIA-XR: Martijn Rooker, Kaj Helin and Andrea Alesani for being there and making these days full of humour and teamwork :) So, what did I do there? In THEIA-XR, we are working on XR solutions for the Off-highway machinery domain. Operating off-highway vehicles is an extremely difficult job: operators often deal with limited visibility and rapidly changing weather. The machines are heavy, dangerous and expensive, so mistakes can have serious consequences. We're working to improve the quality of work in this field by providing operators with more information through real-time XR features like laser-guided lines, haptic feedback, obstacle detection, and trespassers/bystander recognition. We're also exploring the limits of teleoperation for some of these vehicles, which could improve efficiency. However, there's always another side to the technological progress. How can we ensure that the XR technologies we bring into the workflow don't lead to more surveillance, inequality, performance judgment, or other risks like overreliance on XR features? One of the things we are doing in THEIA-XR is creating Design Guidelines for privacy and ethics, which should help projects like ours consider these important questions. We've been working with partners, stakeholders, developers, and end-users and analyzing existing guidelines on ethics and privacy in XR/VR/AR/Metaverse to find the most relevant ones for our domain. We've already have a preliminary version of the Guidelines, but I believe there's still much room for improvement. So, I NEED YOUR HELP :) In Stereopsia, I already started distributing the flyers for our feedback form, but I think it would be more efficient to post my link here! If you have experience with ethics/privacy issues in XR/AR/VR/MR, or if you've worked in the Off-Highway machinery domain (like with excavators, snow groomers, reach stackers, agriculture, forestry, etc.), or both, please fill out our questionnaire: https://lnkd.in/esEykjgf Your input will help us improve the Guidelines, make them more actionable and understand what is missing. Thank you so much!