Resources - Publications - SEISMEC | Piloting the Shift to Human-Centric Industry

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

Publications

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

Publications

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

Publications

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.

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.

25/04/2025

Publications

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.

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

Publications

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

Publications

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

Publications

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

Publications

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.

Mapping Baseline Perceptions of Industry 5.0 Technology: A Survey Design for Pilot Organisations

Fairness, Trust and Understanding as Preconditions and Predictors for Industry 5.0 AI Adoption

Evaluating the Fit of Standards for Human-Centric AI and Digital Implementation: A Multilayered Approach to Governing Human-Centric Industry 5.0

Beyond Technical KPIs: A Human-Centric Framework for Technology Implementation

Workplace innovation: Theory, research and practice

Towards Privacy-Preserving Ladder-Walking Detection in Construction Environments Using Differential Privacy and Visual Data Protection

xC2SAR: An Explainable and Auditable C2 Framework for Human–UAV Teaming in SAR Operations

EviInspect: Evidence-Grounded Annotation and Evaluation for Safety-Critical Industrial Inspection

Aggregated thematic data and research materials: Stakeholder perspectives on occupational exoskeleton adoption in warehouse settings

Reframing Success in Embodied Work: Competing Perspectives on Occupational Exoskeleton Adoption

Ladder Walking Detection via Action Recognition for Enhancing Worker Safety in Construction

SMART Work Design and Modern Sociotechnical Theory. A marriage made in heaven?

Enhancing Health Risk Monitoring: An Explainable Human-Centric Approach Using Wearable Data and Sensor Integration

Can you bring the HR professional into dialogue with the organisational designer?

Enhanced Defect Detection in Airport Runway Infrastructure Using Image-Text Pairing

A Framework for Vision-Based 3D Inspections for Maintenance Activities and Digital Twin Integration

CAPS Self assessment: Aiming for Human- centricity through CAPS

Reviewing workplace innovation as a plea for a practical approach

Connecting the SMART work design approach to sociotechnical design principles

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