Interview with AREA Member BrainXChange and GE Wearables Worker
AREA member BrainXChange recently interviewed Sam Murley, Digital Acceleration Designer at General Electric (GE). [Link to full interview].
Key points from the interview include:
- Wearable technology improves productivity and efficiency
- Augmented Reality, Mixed Reality, and wearable tech are best applied by streamlining the transfer of knowledge and offering vital information in context
- Anywhere information is accessed has the potential to be transformed by wearable tech
- Reducing risk and adding efficiencies are key focuses for pilot programs
- Main challenges of developing tech include:
- Keeping variables consistent (running a pilot as a scientific experiment)
- Scaling down a project without removing key features
- Meeting procedures and policies (e.g. IT security)
- Figuring out which is the best technology to fit the environment/end user
- Prioritising projects
- Researching emerging tech and partnering with new adopters of technology is important
- Smart glasses are key in transforming and mobilizing the workplace
- In future, we will no longer be limited to communicating, connecting, and creating information via physical screens
- Currently, the main issue with wearables is interoperability
- The change from mobile to digital assistants will soon arrive
- Part of the digital innovation strategy of companies should be to cover aspects beyond the interfaces and take calculated risks
- It is predicted that humans and robots will work in collaboration while using wearables at some point in the future