Autor: Ingrid Rügge

Researchers and decision-makers in global logistics are constantly communicating and co-operating across disciplinary and cultural borders. Therefore, doctoral candidates in logistics need to learn and practice skills to cope with multi-dimensional diversity in their working environment. We present a dynamically evolving structured doctoral training programme offered to early stage researchers who are affiliated with the International Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics in the Research Cluster LogDynamics at the University of Bremen.

This contribution explains the concept of „Wearable Computing“ and the underlying ideas and technologies. These include, among others, the application of wearable computers and mobile input and output devices for a “casual” use: By means of sensors, the system gathers context information in order to reduce the necessary interaction for the user and to present the right information at the right time, and at the right location. A crucial fea- ture of such a solution is that it is an intelligent assistant system supporting the qualified user on site during his mobile work. Areas of application include the maintenance of large indus-trial plants, health care, and tourism. In the present contribution, the focus is on industrial innovation.