In this review we address the human in human robot collaboration (HRC). Although there
are different hypotheses on potential effects of HRC on job quality, defined as the quality of …

Robotics and related technologies are central to the ongoing digitization and advancement
of manufacturing. In recent years, a variety of strategic initiatives around the world including …

With the vision of Industry 4.0 and cobots, working conditions in industrial settings are
starting to change. We review related literature from the fields of human–robot interaction …

The Industry 4.0 paradigm emphasizes the crucial benefits that collaborative robots, ie,
robots able to work alongside and together with humans, could bring to the whole …

We investigate how collaboration is understood and configured in industrial workplaces with
collaborative robots (cobots). Through a qualitative analysis of 115 case studies of …

The presence and coexistence of human operators and collaborative robots in shop-floor
environments raises the need for assigning tasks to either operators or robots, or both …

In production environments, the number of distributed, networked, and automated systems
has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to grow in the future. This affects humans' …

Modern manufacturing paradigms introduce the need for robots able to naturally cooperate
with humans in an unstructured and dynamic environment. In this article we extend …

This one-day workshop seeks to advance the discussion around making and fabrication in
HCI research, including notions of hobbyist making and industrial production. These …

During the past few years we investigated humans' work in a semiconductor factory, both in
relation to digital and non-digital artifacts. With this paper, we provide an overview of aspects …