2024 / Conceptual (design Only Or Prototype) / Industrial Product Design / Professional

Operator - Digital Transformation in Industry with a focus on the Operator 4.0

• Prizes
  Winner in CONCEPTUAL (Design only or Prototype)/Industrial Product Design
• Company
  Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, Portugal
• Lead Designer
  Ana C. Barros, Ruben Moutinho, Catarina Dantas
• Design Team
  Human-Centred Design Team
• Project Link
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Being an industrial worker is a demanding job which might impact workers’ physical and mental health, but collecting these data is currently very difficult. OPERATOR is a personal kit to assess wellbeing at work designed with and for industrial shopfloor operators. The design used inclusive design principles and sought to give workers visibility over their own health at work. Different devices assess environmental risk, ergonomic risk and self-perceived wellbeing. Through a mobile application, each worker using the kit can privately see their own data collected by these devices.

Bio
Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS is a centre conducting research and development of digital technologies, mainly for the sectors of health and of manufacturing. The centre is composed of a multidisciplinary team with backgrounds in design (service, interaction, industrial), healthcare, informatics, electronics, data science and biomedical engineering.