HUMAINE Funding Project.
The BMFTR-funded HUMAINE Competence Center—the Ruhr Metropolis’s transfer hub for human-centered work with AI—develops methods for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into work processes with the aim of improving working and living conditions.
The focus is on innovative tools at the interface between AI development and AI use. The analysis and validation are carried out with practical pilot applications in the healthcare industry and industrial SMEs. Synergies between the areas are being exploited and successive multipliers for applications in other sectors are being integrated. The solution approaches are made available beyond the native context for regionally based companies via the HUMAINE competence center. The focus lies on the reliability of AI, user-friendliness, support for employees while consistently utilizing the performance potential of humans in the work process, and even the development of new business models in order to achieve growth. An important point here is the social acceptance of AI and addressing its potential for better working conditions in order to avoid AI serving purely rationalization purposes.
HUMAINE Project Consortium.
Results from HUMAINE.
HUMAINE is developing a piloted toolbox for the human-centered design of work through and with AI that brings together the dimensions of people, technology, and organization. The piloting results from scientific conception and practical testing within seven pilot applications. The developed methods will be validated and scientifically elaborated and made accessible to a broad audience of experts via the competence center HUMAINE.
With innovative methods at the interface between AI development and AI use and validation on practical pilot applications in the healthcare sector and industrial SMEs, we show ways to transform the world of work. Through new forms of work organization, we create the conditions for forward-looking technology to become reliable through the consistent involvement of people and thus to develop its potential. These are the requirements for economic efficiency and acceptance.
Through a total of more than 160 scientific publications during the regular project period, contributions to four special issues, and intensive dissemination activities within the scientific community, the findings and results from HUMAINE were shared with the scientific community to the best of our ability. You can find the publicly available publications in our publication database.
Follow-up Projects.
