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SUMMARY:Sargent Centre Seminar Series – Dr. George Koutitas -‘How AR/VR
  and Digital Twins are shaping manual labour’
DESCRIPTION:Please do join us for the next instalment in the compelling Sar
 gent Centre Seminar Series on Monday 20th June\, where we are excited to w
 elcome Dr. George Koutitas presenting ‘How AR/VR and Digital Twins are s
 haping manual labour’.\n The seminar\, followed by a Q&A\, will be taki
 ng place from 3-4pm on Microsoft Teams.\n A summary of ‘How AR/VR and D
 igital Twins are shaping manual labour ’\n This seminar will discuss ho
 w Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) Technologies can help shape the fu
 ture of manual work. For the purpose of our investigation\, two use cases 
 will be presented based on recent applied research at Texas State Universi
 ty and Augmented Training Systems Inc. The first use case concerns the sec
 tor of first responders and we will discuss how AR/VR helped improved the 
 training of the AmBus team in Austin Texas. We will showcase how AR/VR tec
 hnology helped improve muscle and cognitive learning of the team by presen
 ting experimental results from 3 teams who received traditional\, VR and A
 R trainings. The second use case will cover the area of accident predictio
 n in material handling scenarios and the discussion will focus an industry
  4.0 setup. We will present how a digital twin avatar whose motion is trig
 gered by a Motion Capture system (MoCap) can be a catalyst of accident pre
 vention.\n About the speaker – Dr. George Koutitas\n George Koutitas (
 PhD) is a digital transformation and innovation enthusiast with a multi-cu
 ltural experience in Corporate\, Entrepreneurial and Academic sectors in E
 U and USA. He holds more than 14 years of research and business experience
 . \n In 2018\, George was the co-founder of Augmented Training Systems In
 c\, a state–of–the–art AR/VR platform that helps Cities improve the 
 training of first responders and reduce cost for training. In 2014\, he co
 -founded Gridmates Inc\, which is the world’s first cloud platform for S
 mart Energy Donations and Energy Gift Cards. Utilities around the world us
 e Gridmates to improve their social responsibility programs. \n Between 2
 016 to 2020\, Dr. George Koutitas has served as an Assist. Professor in El
 ectrical and Computer Engineering at Ingram School of Engineering\, Texas 
 State University and as the Director of the XReality Research lab. \n Aft
 er 6 wonderful years in Austin Texas\, George has returned back to his hom
 etown in Thessaloniki\, to serve as a Director in Architecture and Innovat
 ion Lab at Pfizer’s Center for Digital Innovation focusing on Digital En
 gagement and Machine Learning.\n Dr. George Koutitas holds a B.Sc. degree
  in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece\, an M.Sc.
  degree (with Distinction and prizes from ‘Nokia’) in Mobile and Satel
 lite Communications from the University of Surrey\, UK and a PhD in Electr
 ical Engineering under EPSRC scholarship from the Centre for Communication
 s Systems Research\, UK. His post-doctoral research was in Smart Grids and
  Optimization algorithms under an EU funded program. George is a member of
  IEEE and IET. He is the inventor of 1 US non provisional patent (pending)
  and has published more than 60 scientific publications in peer reviewed j
 ournals\, books and international conferences that received more than 1400
  citations from the international scientific community (h_index=20).\n Ge
 orge believes that great achievements in life arrive when someone thinks o
 ut of the box\, performs inspirational leadership with Agile\, Design Thin
 king and Hands-on mindsets and of course by working hard and looking forwa
 rd. Sometimes in life we should prefer to follow the hard and narrow path 
 because it always guides us to our destination. \nPlease do get in contact
  if you have any queries\, and please do share this with any colleagues or
  peers who may find this of interest.
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/149274/sargent-centre-seminar-series-
 dr-george-koutitas-how-ar-vr-and-digital-twins-are-shaping-manual-labour/
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