Night at the museum? With VR to the mobility of the future? New technologies open new ways!

Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO

Dear Sir or Madam,

How can municipalities in Germany implement sustainable concepts with digital means as quickly as possible? How can cultural institutions such as museums also use digital technologies and smart services to shape the future visitor experience?

The digitalization push triggered by the Corona crisis has released creative impulses for different challenges. Whether in the fight against climate change or for sustainable urban development, our experts are developing a wide range of solutions in various projects to steer digitalization in the right direction. What can the production industry learn from the crisis? This is the question we explored at the digital conference re:publica remote, which was held online for the first time.

The topic "home office" continues to accompany us, also in our research work. With the "Corona Home Office Test", our researchers want to analyze the way we worked before the pandemic in comparison to the current situation.

Our newsletter will provide you with further red-hot reading material over the summer: A publication summarizing the results of the cross-media project "2049: Time Travel Mobility" is awaiting you on the future of mobility.

I cordially invite you to share your own experiences working from home in our current survey and wish you many more good ideas and courage for the future.

Kind regards

Dr. Stephan Wilhelm
Head of Marketing and Communication


	News

Catalyst for sustainable cities and regions

The Fraunhofer Morgenstadt initiative highlights strategic measures that aim to achieve broad implementation of digital and sustainable urban development

Cities are some of the biggest emitters of CO2 – and that makes them a powerful lever in the fight against global warming. The team behind the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft’s Morgenstadt initiative recently published a position paper that aims to help German municipalities fast-track the implementation of sustainable urban development and digitalization. The goal of this new publication is to pool existing solutions, make them accessible and financially viable for municipalities and cities everywhere, and create new capacities.

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Art and robots – how digitalization can change a visit to museums

In the latest findings from the Future Museum project, Fraunhofer IAO shows how digitalization and artificial intelligence can contribute to the visitor experience

The use of innovative technology and smart services can substantially enhance the museum experience, providing visitors with a new approach to art, history and knowledge. That’s the latest lesson from the Future Museum project, a joint initiative by the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO and the company MUSEUM BOOSTER GmbH. But what does a digital museum experience actually involve?

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Making hotels smart and resilient in times of crisis

A new study from the FutureHotel research project shows how digitalization can help the crisis-ridden hotel sector
With their numerous services involving person-to-person contact, the hotel and tourism industries are suffering severely in the current crisis. How can hotels survive the crisis, resume operations, and still enforce social-distancing measures? A new report from Fraunhofer IAO’s FutureHotel research project shows potential ways forward and explains why digitalized hotels promise resilience.

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Start of the Fraunhofer Competence Center “Quantum Computing Baden-Württemberg”

Application-oriented research for the next generation of high-performance computers
In order to advance application-oriented research on quantum computing, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft is founding a national network on quantum computing with regional centers in seven German states. The first center to start is the Competence Center “Quantum Computing Baden-Württemberg”. The federal state government will support the center with up to € 40 million over the next four years. Fraunhofer IAF takes over the coordinative management of the Competence Center Baden-Württemberg together with Fraunhofer IAO.

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Virtual reality can assist with the evaluation of future transport concepts

A new study from Fraunhofer IAO presents the results of a VR-based method for forecasting new technology and evaluating the acceptance of future urban transport concepts
In a multimedia project – “2049: Zeitreise Mobilität” – conducted together with the German regional broadcaster Hessischer Rundfunk, Fraunhofer IAO has used virtual reality to send test persons on a journey through time to German and U.S. cities in the year 2049. The concluding study shows which future transport concepts meet with acceptance and are regarded as realistic. When it comes to tomorrow’s transport, however, different generations do not always agree on which attributes are most desirable.

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The coronavirus home office survey: How well are we working from home?

The coronavirus home office survey, along with immediate feedback on respondents’ answers, will feed into a study based on an analysis of the current work situation and its impact on employee collaboration and wellbeing
People working from home are currently being asked to take part in a survey by Fraunhofer IAO on their current work situation. Its purpose is to analyze the quality of collaboration with colleagues and research partners, to gauge respondents’ wellbeing and to evaluate the quality of their work. A study based on this survey will then make inferences with regard to a range of factors as well as future developments.

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Exit strategies for the production industry at re:publica re:mote

Fraunhofer IAO demonstrates how a digital lab twin is created on re:publica.tv on May 7
The renowned conference »re:publica«, which attracts thousands of guests eve-ry year, will offer an online conference format for the first time on May 7th, 2020. The Fraunhofer institute IAO will be present with the session »re:think work - The digitalization of production«. Thereby, the focus will be laid on the laboratory twin, which is part of the project »FutureWork 360«. The project aims to communicate practical research to international target groups via virtu-al environments.

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	Webinars

From AI to ultra-efficiency: experience the future of work. Our webinars "FutureWork360" on July 22 and July 29, 2020

Experiencing the research of tomorrow during the Corona crisis is not possible? Yes, it is! Regardless of your location, we offer you the opportunity to immerse yourself in our exciting research topics, get to know our Future Work Lab virtually as part of the "FutureWork360" project and then exchange ideas with our experts.

Besides gladly inviting you to our two webinars "FutureWork360," with focus on different topics, we would like to inform you about the special novelty of these webinars: You can send us your specific questions regarding the topics in advance, so that we can tailor the events to your needs and wishes, before you attend:

» 22.7.2020 / 14:00 - 15:00 o'clock: Mass personalization and ultra efficiency

» 29.7.2020 / 14:00 - 15:30 o'clock: Production IT, Data Science and AI

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