VRTrainingIndustry

About Project

Virtual EnvironmentS for optimization and training in InduStry 4.0

The VRTrainingIndustry project, developed by INESC TEC in collaboration with VESTAS, represents a significant advancement in the field of engineering training support technologies. This innovative authoring approach allows trainers, without the need for continuous software engineering or multimedia technical support, to develop and adjust technical training activities. Using 3D models of wind turbines, trainers can directly demonstrate on them, immersed in 3D, the actions that trainees must perform, alongside technical sheets and other reference materials. The project incorporates a virtual choreography technology created by INESC TEC, which enables the recording and comparison of these actions independently of the technical characteristics of the used 3D visualization platform, enhancing the adaptation of knowledge and rules defined on the current platform to new platforms that may emerge.

Acronym

VRTrainingIndustry

Responsible

Leonel Caseiro Morgado

Status

Closed

Start

January 13, 2019

End

January 12, 2021

Effective End

January 12, 2021

Global Budget

€169,200.00

Financing

€169,200.00

Members

Team Leaders

Leonel Morgado

Leonel Morgado is Full Professor at the Portuguese Open University (Universidade Aberta), where he lectures on research methods and programming, and a Senior Researcher at INESC TEC, being the coordinator of the INESC TEC Nucleus at Universidade Aberta. He is also Vice-President of the Audit Board of the Portuguese Society of Videogame Sciences, Standards Liaison Co-Chair of the IEEE Education Society Technical Committee on Immersive Learning Environments, and Member of the Steering Committee and of the Circle of Scholars of the Immersive Learning Research Network. His main research interest is the use and development of immersive learning environments, which he pursues since 2000. He authored over two hundred papers, in journals, conferences, and as book chapters, having successfully supervised over ten doctoral theses and over thirty master dissertations. He led and participated in multiple research projects, funded by partners from industry, civil society, national government, and the European Union. Before pursuing an academic career, he was business and technical manager of a hardware import, distribution, and retail company, terminologist for the localization teams of Microsoft Office 97 and Oracle InterOffice, created a company for technical translations and software localization, was language quality specialist for IBM/Lotus, a coordinator of a Web development team for museums and heritage sites, of a software deployment team for nation-wide surgery waiting list management, and manager of a cooperative extension team fighting the digital divide in rural villages.

Team Members

Daniel Mendes

Fernando Cassola Marques

Miguel Correia Melo

Leonel Morgado

Maximino Bessa

António Coelho

Disseminations

INESC TEC has a unique and differentiating management model, improved over its 35 years of history. Reflecting its unique position between academia and industry, the management at INESC TEC carefully balances, in a hybrid model, the academic culture of scientific freedom and dialogue with a culture of efficiency and responsibility in management.

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Associated Centres

Human-Centered Computing and Information Science

The Centre for Human-Centered Computing and Information Science (HumanISE) brings together engineers, scientists, and designers with expertise in Human-Centred Computing (HCC), Computer Science (CS), and Information Science (IS). Interdisciplinarity, one of the Centre’s defining features, fosters the development of software systems, methods, and tools designed to empower individuals and their communities. The excellence and impact of HumanISE’s research, innovation, and consultancy activities allow addressing increasingly complex, volatile, heterogeneous, ambiguous, and uncertain challenges, while ensuring compliance with legal, ethical, and organisational standards and frameworks. Value transfer is achieved through close collaboration with academia and industry partners. HumanISE’s core research areas include Human-Computer Interaction; Computer Graphics and Interactive Digital Media; Information Management and Information Systems; Software Engineering; and Large-Scale and Special-Purpose Computing Systems, Languages, and Tools; as well as Computing for Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems. HumanISE also explores innovation domains like Earth, Ocean and Space Sciences; Personalised Health Research; Geospatial Information Systems Engineering; and Applied Information Systems and Computing.