The Warning Glove: Wearable Computing Technology for Maintenance Assistance in IPS2

This paper presents an approach on how multimodality and wearable technology can be used to design an innovative device for maintenance assistance of human operators in Industrial Product-Service Systems (IPS2). Based on findings from wearable computing technology and multimodality in warning design, the concept and prototypic realization of a multimodal action-specific warning glove is introduced. This glove provides visual, auditory and haptic feedback. To test the glove's usability the maintenance scenario “changing a spindle” was used. The results of the short version of the ISONORM 9241/110 questionnaire encourage further improvements of the warning glove.