28/06/2026
Publications
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
Publications
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.
01/08/2025
Publications
Ladder Walking Detection via Action Recognition for Enhancing Worker Safety in Construction
This publication examines the application of AI-driven action recognition technologies to enhance workplace safety on construction sites, with a specific focus on ladder-related accidents. By interpreting worker motion it enables early warnings and helps prevent falls, supporting human-centric safety programmes, training and compliance. Recognised by peers, it advances practical, explainable AI for high-risk tasks and complements broader smart-site monitoring solutions.
27/06/2025
Publications
SMART Work Design and Modern Sociotechnical Theory. A marriage made in heaven?
Explains how SMART work design and modern sociotechnical theory (MST) can be combined to create truly human-centric organisations. Using the WEBA tool as a bridge, it aligns human needs, task division and strategic choices. The piece provides HR, designers, and managers with a shared language to engineer quality jobs, safer processes, and sustainable performance in Industry 5.0.
30/12/2024
Publications
Can you bring the HR professional into dialogue with the organisational designer?
This publication explores the differing yet complementary perspectives of HR professionals and organisational designers on work design, focusing respectively on human needs and job satisfaction versus work processes and strategic structure. By linking SMART work design with modern sociotechnical principles, it connects human needs, work organisation and strategy. This approach helps teams diagnose pain points, co-create interventions and measure progress, supporting safer, fairer and more productive workplaces aligned with Industry 5.0 values.
23/07/2024
Publications
Enhanced Defect Detection in Airport Runway Infrastructure Using Image-Text Pairing
This study presents a novel, human-centric approach to runway surface defect detection and damage severity estimation using the CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training) architecture. The method reduces costly manual labelling and outputs human-readable assessments, supporting safer maintenance, prioritisation and auditability. A practical example of explainable AI improving infrastructure reliability and operational efficiency in safety-critical environments.
08/07/2024
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A Framework for Vision-Based 3D Inspections for Maintenance Activities and Digital Twin Integration
Outlines a vision-based framework using NeRF/TurboNeRF for high-quality 3D reconstruction and remote inspection of sites and assets. It integrates with digital twins to streamline maintenance workflows, enabling defect detection, evidence capture and collaboration at lower cost. The approach accelerates decisions, reduces downtime and supports traceable, data-driven asset management aligned with Industry 5.0 practices.
21/06/2024
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CAPS Self assessment: Aiming for Human- centricity through CAPS
In an age of digitalization, especially since the pandemic, workers have wanted more flexibility, support, and collaboration. Employers often promise to improve the worker s experience through technologies. Organisations, industries, and technologies, however, often fall short of their promises, especially when they don t put the human first. In this tension, we argue for the SEISMEC shift: industrial practices that combine advances in technology with the empowerment of workers through fair and ethical digital practices. This shift moves past an Industry 4.0 perspective one that puts technology and intensive data analytics at the forefront, and towards an Industry 5.0 perspective one that focuses on the relationship between empowering human practices and new technologies.
04/04/2024
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Reviewing workplace innovation as a plea for a practical approach
Workplace innovation (WPI) approaches share the advancement of work as a commonality, that is, the notion of good jobs and its relation with good business performance. How WPI approaches contribute to the advancement of work is discussed in this narrative review of the WPI literature, which intends to provide direction to future study and implementation of advanced work.
13/02/2024
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Connecting the SMART work design approach to sociotechnical design principles
While sociologists have a strong interest in the division of labour, the labour process, and sociotechnical design aspects, in relation to job and work design, psychologists stress the importance of human needs and human satisfaction. Sociologists underline strategic and organisational choices as conditional to the quality of work, whereas psychologists focus on person-environment-fit approaches. Recently, we observe a rapprochement in the field, with regard to the development of the SMART work design model; individual, team, and organisational elements are integrated into an approach that links human needs, job characteristics and organisational conditions.