We are happy to share that the submission and peer review phase for our workshop SWI5 – Smart Workers in Industry 5.0: Human-Centric Assistance and Work Planning has been completed, and we accepted nine papers for presentation.
We were thrilled by the range and quality of the submissions. Together, the accepted contributions cover much of the Smart Worker pipeline that sits at the heart of SWI5, from the way work instructions are authored and adapted to how they are visualized, recognized, and delivered on the shop floor.
Several papers focus on adaptive work instructions and visualization. These include chunking flat step lists into adaptive manuals, as well as a scoping review of what actually makes step-by-step assembly visualizations effective. Others tackle robust recognition and interaction, such as vision-based real-time tool detection in real industrial operations. A further group addresses skill-adaptive and conversational assistance, ranging from tool-orchestrating worker support to conversational access to AAS-based maintenance information. Immersive and collaborative systems are represented too, for example work on reducing latency in multi-user VR applications. Finally, a strong set of papers focuses on inclusion and human-centric work design, covering cognitive assistive technology framed around functional barriers, disability inclusion in SMEs, and empirical heuristics for employee-job assignments.
The full list of accepted papers is available on our SWI5 page.
This mix is exactly the “reality check” we set out to spark with SWI5: contrasting top-down academic innovation with the bottom-up requirements of real production environments.
SWI5 takes place as part of the 19th PETRA Conference (PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments), held July 12–15, 2026, on Crete, Greece, in hybrid format. With this lineup in place, we are looking forward to putting together an exciting program — including a dedicated panel discussion bridging research and industrial practice.
The full workshop program will be announced soon. Stay tuned.