Bremen wearITwork

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EPICentre

• Established in 1999 as a research centre within
  the University of Abertay Dundee
• Promotes interdisciplinary research arising from
  fusion of fields including physics, engineering,
  computing and psychology

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Display and Related Technologies

• Tracking assessment of emerging display
  technologies
• Displays measurement, characterisation
  evaluation
• Human factors evaluation of display systems
• Activities for developing new microdisplays to be
  used in wearable technologies

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Display Measurements

• Extensive display measurement capabilities
• Measurements are traceable to international
  standards
• Shared contract with UK National Physical
  Laboratory (part of National Measurement Scheme
  in Photonics)

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Microdisplays - highlights

• Development of lightweight head-mounted displays
  (HMD) based on AM PLED-on-Silicon technology
  within a DTI LINK project
• Collaboration with MicroEmissive Displays,
  Edinburgh to produce PLED microdisplays
• Collaboration with Thales Optics, UK, to develop
  novel optics for HMDs

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Sunlight Viewability of Displays

• Specification and development of displays
  suitable for viewing in high ambient illumination
• EPICentre-led consortium of companies from a wide
  base (avionics, nautical, automotive, financial
  applications, OEM)

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Human Factors Research

• Development of a binocular open-architecture HMD
  simulator to test and develop the specifications
  for real HMDs
• Studies of the use of HMDs in training and
  industrial tasks
• Gender studies of navigational skills in
  VR and ER environments

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Wearables Applications

• Large-scale wireless campus project proposed
  within University of Abertay Dundee
• Complex project - involving hardware systems
  integrators, interface designers, communication
  services providers, content providers and
  software specialists

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Wireless Campus

• Flexible test-bed for large information access
  systems
• The system will provide an infrastructure of
  kiosks/access points with facilities to monitor
  data on relevant usage
• Wireless devices used by students and staff as
  test evaluation clients

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Research Outcomes

• Study of suitability of existing technologies for
  such applications (displays, wireless
  communication) and analysis of possible system
  architectures
• Human factors studies of a range of wearable
  devices
• Development of suitable business models to be
  used for commercial implementations

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EPICentre Interests

• Medical applications - telemedicine telehealth
• Computer games and infotainment applications
• Computer-based education training
• Industrial task-support systems (maintenance,
  assembly plants, service support, etc.)

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