Dirk Werth

August-Wilhelm Scheer Institute for Digitized Products and Processes

The increasing prevalence of smart home devices has created new opportunities for cyberthreats and -attacks, necessitating effective security measures for their protection. This study investigates the potential of using power consumption analysis as an indicator for detecting cyberattacks on smart home devices. Through the examination of power data...

Digital transformation is ubiquitous in today's life and is rapidly changing the working process. To be able to actively participate in the changing world, digital competences are needed. Therefore, the employees' competences should be assessed and evaluated to enable individual, lifelong learning. Hence, the competence assessment is a crucial part...

Understanding the distribution of body length or size of farmed fishes is a critical component for creating a sustainable and successful aqua-farming environment. This helps in gaining insight about population dynamics, average weight of fish stocks and reduces overfishing. Also, it helps in making informed business management decisions. Traditiona...

In the healthcare sector in particular, the shortage of skilled workers is a major problem that will become even more acute in the future as a result of demographic change. One way to counteract this trend is to use intelligent systems to reduce the workload of healthcare professionals. AI-based clinical decision support systems (AICDSS) have alrea...

Zusammenfassung Die derzeit stattfindende Transformation der Wirtschaft hin zu einer Kreislaufwirtschaft ist für Unternehmen jeglicher Größe mit Herausforderungen verbunden. Unternehmen müssen so gleichzeitig den bestehenden ökologischen und ökonomischen Kundenwünschen, den politischen und gesellschaftlichen ökologischen Anforderungen sowie den eig...

Current political and social developments in the sustainable use of limited natural resources are leading to new challenges and requirements which need to be mastered by industrial companies. The Digital Product Passport is considered a core element in achieving an ecological transformation of the economy toward a circular economy. However, due to...

New digital technologies furnish retail managers with new means to enhance consumer experiences in omnichannel retailing. Conceptual academic literature and industry emphasize the promising use of immersive digital displays and their potential benefits for retailers. In this research, we present the design of a personal shopping assistance system t...

Meeting friends to go shopping, visit a concert or do some sports together – all this and more is now “virtually” possible in the Metaverse. Currently, the creative industries have made the most of the potential of virtual worlds. But the metaverse has no limits. The newly created dynamics raise the question of the extent to which the manufacturing...

Digital media have become increasingly established in learning contexts in recent decades, and it seems impossible to imagine education without them, especially in recent years. Various technological advances can be observed, such as developments in virtual reality and augmented reality. To give learners a realistic impression of the virtual world,...

An ontology for the structured storage, retrieval and analysis of data on lithium‐ion battery materials and electrode‐to‐cell production is presented. It provides a logical structure that can be mapped onto a digital architecture and can be used to visualize, correlate and make predictions in battery production, research, and development. Materials...

Neue Geschäftsmodelle sind eine Investition in die Zukunft, denn sie erschließen zusätzliche Einnahme�quellen und Kundensegmente. Besonders interessant sind dabei hybride Geschäftsmodelle. „Hybrid“ bedeutet, dass sie sowohl Produkte als auch Dienstlei�stungen umfassen und digital wie analog sein können.

The tight financial situation in many municipalities does not allow them to record and evaluate the condition of their own transport infrastructure in detail. The present rule-based road quality estimation methods are outdated, very expensive and less accurate. The only subjective and non-recurring documentation leads to the fact that there is no r...

Learning with involvement of haptic technologies can provide advanced opportunities in digital learning. Especially over the course of the pandemic the value of digital learning solutions became more obvious. There are attempts with various technologies, which can enhance the quality of learning processes and refine the learning results. However, i...

Die Freunde zum Einkaufen treffen, ein Konzert besuchen und sich zur gemeinsamen Sporteinheit verabreden – das alles und einiges mehr wird virtuell im Metaverse möglich. Bislang macht sich vor allem die Kreativbranche das Potenzial der virtuellen Welten zu Nutze. Doch das Metaverse kennt keine Grenzen, und die neu entstandene Dynamik wirft die Frag...

Automated visual detection and quantification of road defects has been a hot research topic for quite a long time due to its practical importance for road maintenance and traffic safety. However, un- certainties associated with the 2D images, such as non-uniformity of defects, insufficient background illumination, and etc., make it a challenging...

Purpose The transition to omnichannel retail is the recognized future of retail, which uses digital technologies (e.g. augmented reality shopping assistants) to enhance the customer shopping experience. However, retailers struggle with the implementation of such technologies in brick-and-mortar stores. Against this background, the present study inv...

Finding the most suitable process for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is a cumbersome task that usually involves a manual process analysis from RPA experts. We propose a concept for objective and partially automated evaluation of the suitability of a digital process for RPA. This concept is based on the methodology of Desktop Activity Mining, a ta...

Die aktuellen politischen sowie gesellschaftlichen Entwicklungen hin-sichtlich des nachhaltigen Umgangs mit begrenzten natürlichen Ressour-cen führen zu neuen Herausforderungen und Chancen, die es für Indust-riebetriebe zu meistern und nutzen gilt. Eine zentrale Rolle nimmt in diesem Wandel zunehmend das Treibhausgas CO2, als ein Hauptindika-tor fü...

Zusammenfassung Fortwährende, berufsbegleitende Weiterbildung ist ein wesentlicher Garant für die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Mitarbeitenden und der Unternehmen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt. In den kommenden Jahren werden viele Unternehmen die Einführung von digitalem Lernen noch erfolgreich realisieren müssen. Unternehmen sind seit der Hochschulreform 2002 m...

Das Institut für Entrepreneurship & Innovation der Universität Bayreuth hat zum Ende des Jahres 2021 unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung von Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Isidor und Prof. Dr. Matthias Baum in Zusammenarbeit mit dem August-Wilhelm Scheer Institut für digitale Produkte und Prozesse gGmbH den Intrapreneurship-Monitor 2021 veröffentlicht, die der...

Situation faced: The application of artificial intelligence (AI) to automate business processes is becoming more important in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This was also recognized by the company Satherm GmbH. With 20,000 invoices per year, which were all being processed manually, invoicing at Satherm was accompanied by high process c...

Automated visual defect detection on textile products under unconstrained setting is a much sought-after, and at the same time a challenging problem. In general, textile products are structurally complex and highly varied in design, which makes the development of a generalized approach using conventional image processing methods impossible. Deep su...

The activation of flexibility potentials and using them forstabilizing the power grid is a crucial component to overcome thechallenges of the energy transition. Flexibility potentials are not onlyprovided by centralized, large-scaled traditional power plants butalso by private households. The increasing availability of electric-powered vehicles, ph...

Novel digital technologies such as mixed-reality furnish retailers with new means to enhance consumer experiences in omnichannel retailing. This study investigates the relationship between technology acceptance determinants, customers’ experience, and behavioral shopping intentions. We developed a mixed-reality shopping assistant application for Mi...

A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted with 35 participants to collect users' feedback and perceptions about the mixed-reality shopping assistant system

A qualitative study using semi-structured interviews was conducted with 35 participants to collect users' feedback and perceptions about the mixed-reality shopping assistant system

VR is becoming increasingly popular and is developing from a niche market to a mass market currently experiencing thriving. Highly developed technology at affordable prices and a spectrum of applications ranging from gaming to learning to e-business are shaping the VR landscape in 2021. There are attempts to address many human senses through softwa...

Real time human posture estimation using reduced number of sensors is a challenging and highly sought after problem. Various model-based methods have been developed over the years in this direction which utilize optical and/or inertial sensor data. Although these methods have proven effective in laboratory settings, their applicability in the real...

Computational fluid dynamics is an important subtopic in the field of fluid mechanics. The associated workflow includes post processing simulation data which can be enhanced using Mixed Reality to provide an intuitive and more realistic three-dimensional visualization. In this paper we present a cloud-based proof of concept Mixed Reality system to...

Das vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie geförderte Forschungsprojekt „FlexChain“ hat zum Hauptziel, eine aktive Teilhabe am Energiesystem zu ermöglichen. Dafür wird eine dezentrale Handelsplattform auf Blockchain-Basis geschaffen, die Energieerzeugung, -speicherung sowie den -verbrauch dynamisch nach den Bedürfnissen der Orts- und Stad...

Mixed reality has been identified as one of the technologies that can be deployed in omnichannel retail to improve the customer shopping experience. The article presents a mixed reality based digital shopping assistant which aims to provide retail customers with a holistic shopping experience. Design science research methodology is used to develop...

Eine unbesetzte Kläranlage und ein Pumpwerk wurden digitalisiert und virtuell zugänglich. Die interaktive Darstellung von Video- und Betriebsdaten in Echtzeit und eine Analyse der Betriebsgeräusche der Abwasserpumpen mit KI ermöglichen die Fernüberwachung.

Zusammenfassung Ausgelöst durch den immer stärker werdenden Fachkräftemangel ist es notwendig, gewisse Aufgaben zu automatisieren und durch Technologien (z. B. Softwareroboter) unterstützen zu lassen. Besonders administrative Prozesse können von den technologischen Möglichkeiten im Automatisierungsumfeld deutlich profitieren, um die demografischen...

Zusammenfassung In Zeiten des demografischen Wandels nehmen robotische Systeme eine zunehmend bedeutsame Rolle ein. Die Pflegebranche ist stark durch die demografischen Entwicklungen betroffen. Während die Zahl pflegebedürftiger Menschen wächst, fehlen die notwendigen Pflegefachkräfte, um deren optimale Versorgung sicherzustellen. Weiterhin entfäll...

Brick-and-mortar retailers need to stay competitive to the convenience provided by online channels. Technologies, such as personalized shopping assistants on smartphones can empower customers in-store towards a similar experience as in an online scenario. For instance, an augmented reality shopping assistance application with explainable recommenda...

In the light of the German national energy system transformation, the so-called “Energiewende”, the requirements for a sustainable energy supply based on renewables are very complex. To address this topic, the project Designetz develops approaches to test how decentralized renewable energy sources and the need for electrical energy can affect the r...

Living in the era of digitalization shapes more or less all the aspects of one's life. The multitude of available technologies extends the range of tools, established processes, and available affordances in many spheres. Cities of the future will not only impact the living patterns of their inhabitants but also require special conditions and requir...

ABSTRACT Sensor-based IoT data is enhancing information gathering methods for urban planning in many ways and, due to the growing data pool provided by these sensors, more and more cities and municipalities are consequently putting the use of artificial intelligence-based (AI) methods on their agenda. One area of urban planning that will benefit si...

The worldwide expansion of electric vehicle usage comes with the challenge of adapting the respective traffic and charging station infrastructure in cities, resulting in profound changes not only to traffic itself but also to the way energy is being distributed. An ongoing all-embracing real-time IoT-network will provide a vast amount of new possib...

To keep up with their competition from e-commerce, traditional retailers are transitioning into an omnichannel retail that places the customer's shopping journey at the center of the business model by creating digital services that enhance the customer experience. A key service is in-store digital assistance. However, due to the scarcity of the req...

The do-it-yourself (DIY)-mentality looks back on a long tradition and enjoys increasing popularity. Trend themes such as DIY-drones are being taken up as well as DIY-furniture. There is also an increasing number of Internet platforms offering instructions, DIY-KITs or courses. In a world characterized by digitalization and innovation, this approach...

Personal customer care is one of the advantages of physical retail over its online competition, but cost pressure forces retailers to deploy staff as efficiently as possible resulting in a trend of staff reduction. For staff and managers it becomes harder to keep track of what is happening in a store. Situations that would benefit from intervention...

As the retail sector transitions into an omnichannel model, most brick and mortar stores are struggling to keep up with the competition by digital retail formats. Offline retail is still lacking the means to enrich the shopping experience in-store to make it more convenient, personalized and engaging. To this end, we introduce a novel in-store reco...

Virtual reality market is undergoing a rapid extension and continually evolves with technological advancements. Today it is populated with solutions which are complex in terms of interaction and graphics. One such example is applications for educational purposes, a distinct class of VR solutions, development of which implies consideration of multip...

Figure 1: Teaser of the proposed approach ABSTRACT With recent advances in various hardware technologies, human motion capturing (MoCap) has gained importance in the fields such as computer vision, computer animation, gesture recognition in gaming, and most importantly in bio-mechanical analysis. In this direction, human motion is being captured us...

Product design based on mechanical performance requirements and with given boundary conditions is a frequent and demanding engineering problem. In most cases, effectiveness of the design is limited to expertise of the respective designer, which also results in inefficient and incomplete exploration of the product's design space. With a large amount...

Skilled workers are over-proportionally exposed to physical stress and hazards, which often means that their work is characterized by high physical demands. In this paper we deal with a proof of concept, which uses wearable sensors to monitor the movement of workers to automatically identify working gestures and poses which result in high physical...

Skilled workers are over-proportionally exposed to physical stress and hazards, which often means that their work is characterized by high physical demands. In this paper we deal with a proof of concept, which uses wearable sensors to monitor the movement of workers to automatically identify working gestures and poses which result in high physical...

Virtual Reality (VR) will lead to a significant change in the way we teach and learn. VR is characterized by immersion, sensory feedback and interactivity. A recent meta-analysis showed that the use of VR (in a broader sense) in primary, secondary and higher education increases learning success, especially with short learning contents. However, som...

Der Beitrag beschreibt den im Förderprojekt D-MasterGuide gewählten Ansatz des Micro-Blended-Learning für das Ausbauhandwerk. Durch digitale Lernstationen wurde ein neuer Lernraum für überbetriebliche Bildungsstätten gestaltet, der einen vielfältigen Förderansatz verfolgt. Neben der Fachkompetenz werden u. a. die Methoden-, Medien- und Selbstkompet...

Emotions are crucial to any kind of human interaction. Both, emotional state and its perception of own and others have a great impact on the cooperation outcomes. In this paper, we discuss the role of emotions in collaboration and present a concept of the prototype aimed at enriching collaborative remote groups with emotional awareness which can in...

Wie sieht die Energieversorgung im Jahr 2035 aus? Das vom Bundeswirtschaftsministerium geförderten Projekt Designetz ist eines der größten deutschen Forschungsprojekte zur Energiewende. Der sich rasch verändernde, klassische Energiesektor erfordert eine digitale Antwort auf dezentrale Energieversorgung oder dynamisches Einspeisen und Abnehmen von E...

In the 1990s, many retailers went bankrupt in an attempt to transition from traditional to online retail and currently, retailers are facing the same challenges evolving into the omnichannel model due to lack of tools and knowledge to facilitate the transition. Retail managers need to understand the different dynamics and aspects of customer experi...

In recent years, web-based retailers have been taking over a growing market share from traditional brick and mortar retailers. One of the advantages leveraged by online retail is its ability to personalize the customer journey by analyzing the massive amounts of data that can be acquired easily in a digital environment. For example, click-streams f...

Immersive 3D environments have been a major research area in different scientific domains such as Human-Computer Interaction, display devices, etc. Mixed Reality (MR) technologies are one of the most interesting section of immersive environments that has a huge potential of deployment in a diverse range of industries, Retail being one of them. Reta...

Das Thema der smarten und vernetzten Stadt durchdringt mittlerweile sämtliche Bereiche des gesellschaftlichen Lebens. Insbesondere auch die zunehmende Verbreitung von Wearables in der Bevölkerung ist dabei zu betrachten, was einhergehend mit der zunehmenden Relevanz des Forschungsfeldes "Humans as sensors" für den Alltag ist. Neben vielfältigen Bet...

Whenever the characteristics of a Smart City were described, the energy sector with its power grids-the so-called Smart Grids-are considered as a crucial part and backbone of a connected urban area. In this light, an increasing number of plants in the field of renewable energies and the demands of "Sector-Coupling" and power-to-x will make intellig...

Vorwort Panta rhei – alles fließt. Diese kurze Formel beschreibt treffend den aktuellen Stand der digitalen Transformation im deutschen Markt für Unternehmensberatung. Es ist noch nicht abzusehen, wo die Reise hingeht. Aber im Gegensatz zu manchen Kundenbranchen verlaufen die Veränderungen im Beratungsgeschäft bis dato eher evolutionär und nicht di...

Die zunehmende Durchdringung des öffentlichen Raumes mit Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien und die damit zusammenhängende Omnipräsenz von räumlichen Informationen führen dazu, dass vermehrt von vernetzten und smarten Städten im Kontext der Stadtplanung gesprochen wird.

Among many other industries, the digital transformation has also reached the consulting and IT services sector for some time. Not only client-side projects for the redesign of digital business models are carried out, but also consultancies face the challenge of rethinking their own business and delivery models in order to remain competitive. To det...

Previous occupational safety concepts in human-machine interaction scenarios are based on the principle of spatial separation, reduction of collision force or distance monitoring between humans and robots. Collaborative robot systems and semi-automated machines are working closely with people in more and more areas, both spatially and functionally....

https://dl.gi.de/handle/20.500.12116/18904 | Vorgehensmodelle (wie z. B. Scrum oder Prince2) müssen insbesondere bei kleinen und mittelständischen Unternehmen individualisiert werden, um projektspezifischen Rahmenbedingungen (z. B. PM-Methode der Auftraggeber, Projektgröße, multiple Projekte, Branchenfokus etc.) zu genügen. Die Anpassung der Model...

As a megatrend, the so-called Digital Transformation describes the entire potential of new technologies in economy. Thereby new approaches are needed to reveal this potential for companies. Looking at the literature a structured guideline is missing to reveal this potential by developing new digital business models (DBM) from the scratch. Therefore...

Product failures are dreaded by manufacturers for the associated costs and resulting damage to their public image. While most defects can be traced back to decisions early in the design process they are often not discovered until much later during quality checks or, at worst, by the customer. We propose a machine learning-based system that automati...

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Die Unternehmensberatung ist eine der Branchen, die exzellent von der Digitalisierung profitiert. Allerdings primär als diejenige, die die Vielzahl der Projekte zur Digitalisierung von Unternehmen verschiedenster Branchen aufsetzt, steuert und durchführt. Aber warum ist die Beratung selbst nicht digitalisiert? Selbst in einem klassischen People Bus...

Consulting is a service industry at surprisingly low level of digitiza-tion. While digital business models enter all economic branches, consulting itself as one of the drivers of digitization has not yet encountered disruptive changes. Since both customers and consultants express a need for digital consulting, a potential cause for the described si...

Many companies use information systems to manage their business processes and thereby collect large amounts of transactional data. The analysis of this data offers the possibility of automated detection of anomalies, i.e. flaws and faults, in the execution of the process. The anomalies can be related not only to the sequence of executed activities...