15/10/2025
UPCOMING EVENT
SEISMEC Second Online Workshop: Flip the script: Powering worker participation in the design and implementation of technology.
Join us for our second workshop as we explore the role of workers’ involvement in technology adoption within organisations.
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.
19/06/2025
newswave
SEISMEC Newswave Issue #3
(June 2025)
Third issue of SEISMEC’s Newswave, our official project newsletter.
15/05/2025
PAST EVENT
SEISMEC Online Workshop: Human Centric Industry 5.0 - Concepts and Solutions.
In our first online workshop, we explored innovative concepts and practical, human-centric solutions that are shaping a more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient future for industry and society.
Watch the full recording and follow our journey!
Watch the full recording and follow our journey!
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.
04/12/2024
newswave
SEISMEC Newswave Issue #2 (Autumn 2024)
Second issue of SEISMEC’s Newswave, our official project newsletter.
15/10/2024
Promotional materials
Flyer
Discover the key elements of the SEISMEC project through our Flyer, designed to provide a clear and concise overview of SEISMEC’s mission and impact. This informative material illustrates how SEISMEC promotes human-centric solutions, fosters co-creation of technology, and supports the development of high-quality jobs in the EU’s industrial sector.
11/10/2024
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Trifold Brochure
Explore the key objectives and goals of the SEISMEC project through our concise and informative Trifold Brochure. This brochure provides an overview of how SEISMEC promotes human-centric solutions to empower workers, foster creativity, and build sustainable, high-quality jobs across the EU’s industrial landscape.
11/10/2024
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Rollup
Discover the key elements of the SEISMEC project through our Roll-up, designed for events and exhibitions. This visual material highlights how SEISMEC promotes human-centric solutions, driving co-creation of technology and fostering high-quality jobs within the EU’s industrial landscape.
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.
17/07/2024
newswave
SEISMEC Newswave Issue #1 (Summer 2024)
Inaugural issue of SEISMEC s Newswave, our official project newsletter.
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.
07/07/2024
Publications
A Conceptual Framework for Workforce Skills for Industry 5.0: Implications for Research, Policy and Practice
Industry 5.0 is a relatively new topic and not yet well-defined. This article s purpose is to develop
understanding of Industry 5.0 by offering a new socio-centric conceptual framework. It extends prevailing
perception of Industry 5.0 by integrating workforce skills, labour shortages, and eco-digital shifts. The
study explores workforce skill measurement and its implementation.
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.
20/06/2024
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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.
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.
08/02/2024
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First press release
SEISMEC -Supporting European Industry Success Maximization through Empowerment Centred development- aims to demonstrate the concept of human-centricity across a wide array of industry sectors, scales and sociotechnical contexts in the EU. Through 17 pilots spanning 14 key industrial ecosystems embedded in the European Single Market, SEISMEC will demonstrate how human-centric solutions can effectively empower workers in the co-design and co-development of new technologies, thus facilitating the journey towards a skills-driven and creativity-infused industrial landscape; one that is built around high-quality, sustainable jobs, and prioritises overall worker security and satisfaction.