Intelligent Industrial Systems

This is a theme course of IPD theme 1: Digital Design and AI.

This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of Intelligent Industrial Systems (IIS) that leverage, sensing technologies, AI, and Extended Reality (XR) to augment the perceptual and cognitive capacities of humans in industrial settings, following the principles of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).

IIS refers to advanced technological solutions that combine AI with interactive user interfaces (UIs) to create dynamic, adaptive, and user-centric applications in industrial settings. Interacting with intelligent systems can be multimodal, multisensory and immersive, including touch-based, voice-based and text-based interactions with physical, visual, neural and virtual interfaces. Thoughtfully crafted intelligent industrial systems consider the user’s perceptual and cognitive abilities and limitations, improve decision-making, increase productivity, facilitate knowledge sharing, enhance memory recall, prolong attention, and upgrade user experience (UX). In this course, students will demonstrate how IIS can enhance human abilities in workplace contexts such as healthcare, manufacturing, and the energy sector.