16/10/2026
Posters
Mapping Baseline Perceptions of Industry 5.0 Technology: A Survey Design for Pilot Organisations
This poster presents the design of a baseline survey developed within SEISMEC to examine workers’ perceptions of factors that may influence the adoption of Industry 5.0 technologies. The survey covers areas including cybersecurity, privacy, trust, fairness, organisational learning and co-design, together with the SEISMEC CAPS empowerment factors, providing a basis for comparing perceptions before and after technology implementation across the project’s pilot organisations.
16/10/2026
Posters
Fairness, Trust and Understanding as Preconditions and Predictors for Industry 5.0 AI Adoption
This poster explores how fairness, trust and understanding interact to influence the adoption of AI in Industry 5.0. Based on a systematic review and meta-analysis, it proposes an initial framework in which fairness provides a normative basis, trust develops through organisational and relational factors, and understanding, including explainability and AI literacy, enables users to assess both.
01/10/2026
Posters
Evaluating the Fit of Standards for Human-Centric AI and Digital Implementation: A Multilayered Approach to Governing Human-Centric Industry 5.0
This poster examines how standards can support the implementation of human-centric Industry 5.0. It identifies the need for an overarching framework that can connect existing and emerging standards as AI systems, digital technologies and the related normative environment continue to evolve.
30/09/2026
Posters
Beyond Technical KPIs: A Human-Centric Framework for Technology Implementation
This poster presents a human-centric KPI framework developed from qualitative data across 17 SEISMEC pilots. It examines technology implementation beyond conventional technical indicators by considering factors such as worker autonomy, cognitive workload, trust in technology and participation in decision-making, combining technical performance with wellbeing and governance perspectives.
18/09/2026
Presentations
Workplace innovation: Theory, research and practice
Slides from a guest lecture on “Workplace Innovation: Theory, Research and Practice”, delivered on 17 September 2026 as part of the Social Innovation, Sustainable Employability & Sustainable Performance course at TU Eindhoven, Faculty of Industrial Engineering & Innovation Sciences, Human Performance Management group.
17/07/2026
Towards Privacy-Preserving Ladder-Walking Detection in Construction Environments Using Differential Privacy and Visual Data Protection
This publication examines how privacy-preserving techniques affect AI-based detection of unsafe ladder-walking behaviour in construction environments. It compares differential privacy, face masking and visual transformation, assessing their impact on recognition accuracy, worker identifiability and deployment feasibility. The study also incorporates an AI trustworthiness assessment to explore how visual monitoring can support workplace safety while protecting workers’ privacy.
02/07/2026
xC2SAR: An Explainable and Auditable C2 Framework for Human–UAV Teaming in SAR Operations
This publication presents xC2SAR, an explainable and auditable framework for supporting human–UAV collaboration in Search and Rescue operations. It combines UAV imagery, structured search-and-rescue knowledge and multimodal AI with explainability methods, helping operators understand and verify AI-supported decisions in time-critical situations.
02/07/2026
EviInspect: Evidence-Grounded Annotation and Evaluation for Safety-Critical Industrial Inspection
This publication introduces EviInspect, an evidence-guided framework for safety-critical visual inspection that connects image-based observations with external domain references and human verification. Demonstrated through airport runway Foreign Object Debris inspection, the approach supports more traceable and reproducible AI-assisted decisions while evaluating whether vision-language models rely on sufficient evidence.
30/06/2026
SEISMEC Newswave Issue #5 (June 2026)
Fifth issue of SEISMEC’s Newswave, our official project newsletter.
28/06/2026
Aggregated thematic data and research materials: Stakeholder perspectives on occupational exoskeleton adoption in warehouse settings
This open-access data package accompanies the article Reframing Success in Embodied Work: Competing Perspectives on Occupational Exoskeleton Adoption. The study involved 34 semi-structured interviews with operators, managers and experts to examine how the adoption of occupational exoskeletons is negotiated and adapted by different stakeholders across organisational and everyday work practices.
28/06/2026
Reframing Success in Embodied Work: Competing Perspectives on Occupational Exoskeleton Adoption
This record contains the scientific publication “Reframing Success in Embodied Work: Competing Perspectives on Occupational Exoskeleton Adoption”, published in the European Journal of Workplace Innovation.
The study explores how frontline employees, managers, technical and academic experts negotiate the adoption of occupational exoskeletons in warehouse settings.
13/05/2026
What does Industry 5.0 look like in real companies? Workshop - Human-Centric Companies in Practice (2nd edition)
This SEISMEC workshop brings together presentations from 3 sister-projects, showcasing real-world examples of human-centred digital transformation across manufacturing, tourism, training and accessibility.
31/03/2026
SEISMEC Online Workshop: Human-Centric Companies in Industry 5.0 Practice
This SEISMEC workshop explored how European projects and pilot companies are putting human-centric innovation into practice across different industrial contexts.
16/12/2025
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SEISMEC Newswave Issue #4
(December 2025)
Fourth issue of SEISMEC’s Newswave, our official project newsletter.
15/10/2025
Flip the Script: Powering Worker Participation in the Design and Implementation of Technology
Our second SEISMEC Online Workshop: “Flip the Script: Powering Worker Participation in the Design and Implementation of Technology” delved into the SEISMEC approach to strengthening worker involvement in the adoption of technological solutions in the workplace.
Ladder Walking Detection via Action Recognition for Enhancing Worker Safety in Construction
D2.2 - AGILE guidebook for iterative and collaborative participation
This deliverable offers insights, recommendations, and useful context for involving workers in the design and implementation of (digital) technologies. The actionable recommendations in this deliverable will help foster iterative participation, emphasising co-creation, continuous feedback loops, and integration of worker input into organisational processes. The deliverable also addresses key challenges organisations may face when involving workers in technology design and implementation. These conclusions and recommendations are drawn from literature, interviews with Industry 5.0 experts, and consultations with 16 pilot companies participating in SEISMEC. These methods will be evaluated and validated across all SEISMEC pilots under WP3 (Pilots in real working environments). Overall, this deliverable helps organisations incorporate sustainable, human-centric solutions, and promote technology adoption while improving both job satisfaction and productivity.
Deliverables
D2.1 - Design guidelines, instruments and assessment criteria
This deliverable presents 41 “solution directions” – tools, methods and technologies – grouped into six categories, each with design guidelines and assessment instruments to support implementation. Based on literature reviews, expert input, workshops and feedback from pilot organisations, it offers a practical roadmap and research protocol to evaluate how new technologies affect work practices, well-being, safety and productivity in an Industry 5.0 context.
SMART Work Design and Modern Sociotechnical Theory. A marriage made in heaven?
SEISMEC Newswave Issue #3
(June 2025)
SEISMEC Online Workshop: Human Centric Industry 5.0 - Concepts and Solutions.
Watch the full recording and follow our journey!
25/04/2025
Enhancing Health Risk Monitoring: An Explainable Human-Centric Approach Using Wearable Data and Sensor Integration
This publication presents an explainable AI approach for monitoring health risks in first responders using real-time data from wearable devices. By combining machine-learning predictions with SHAP and LIME explanations, it supports transparent assessment of conditions such as exhaustion, stress and respiratory issues, helping users interpret alerts and make informed decisions in high-pressure environments.
Can you bring the HR professional into dialogue with the organisational designer?
SEISMEC Newswave Issue #2 (Autumn 2024)
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Enhanced Defect Detection in Airport Runway Infrastructure Using Image-Text Pairing
SEISMEC Newswave Issue #1 (Summer 2024)
08/07/2024
A Framework for Vision-Based 3D Inspections for Maintenance Activities and Digital Twin Integration
D1.1 - Benchmark of concepts and dimensions of human-centrism
Human-centrism is a critical concept that is more and more important across all European industries and various domains, including technology, design, and policy. This benchmark study explores the dimensions and underlying concepts of human-centrism. By analyzing existing literature and case studies, we identify key elements such as user needs, ethical considerations, and inclusivity. Our findings contribute to a deeper understanding of how to create more human-centric industries and services.
D6.1 - Dissemination, Communication & Engagement Plan
This document outlines SEISMEC’s overall dissemination, communication and engagement strategies, providing specific action plans to reach a critical mass. It also contains the compilation of all early stage promotional actions, brand elements designed and released to execute the outreach plans, including: the project’s identity system and brand templates, online channels, events and future publications.
D3.1 - Pilot implementation and monitoring plan
The Pilot Implementation and Monitoring Plan report provides a comprehensive and detailed outline for all pilot activities. This document will reflect project developments, ensuring systematic and efficient implementation. The report includes the detailed plans for monitoring pilot progress, research methodologies, key performance indicators (KPIs), protocols and framework to achieve the projects’ objectives. Additionally, it encompasses ethics and privacy in data management to ensure safety and security throughout the project. The report aims to facilitate timely and accurate progress reporting, ensuring the pilot activities are conducted effectively, and contributing to the project’s success. Ultimately, the Pilot Implementation and Monitoring Plan serves as a crucial framework, guiding the execution of SEISMEC’s pilot activities to achieve the project’s goals.
CAPS Self assessment: Aiming for Human- centricity through CAPS
Official slide deck
Piloting the shift to human-centric industry – SEISMEC advocates for a multidimensional transformation that hinges on fair and trustworthy technology, ethical incentives, capacity building and democratisation as key enablers to fundamentally change the way workers see themselves and are seen within their organisations.