The rapid expansion of intelligent technologies and digital transformation has intensified global debates regarding sustainability, ethical governance, industrial resilience, and human well-being within contemporary industrial systems. Industry 5.0 h...
With the intent to further increase production efficiency while making human the centre of the processes, human-centric manufacturing focuses on concepts such as digital twins and human–machine collaboration. This paper presents enabling techno...
Industry 5.0 combines automation/digitalization with human capabilities to create a more intuitive, interactive, and sustainable working environment. Additive manufacturing, widely known as 3D printing, is a key technology used to increase customizat...
The concept of “human-centric, sustainable and resilient smart cities” in Industry 5.0 (I5.0) refers to urban socio-technical ecosystems in which digital infrastructures and services are explicitly oriented toward human well-being, ecolog...
In this article, an employee perspective has been applied in aiming to explore how organizations face challenges and take responsibility for industrial digitalization, thus extending the research on the human-centric perspective in relation to Indust...
This article highlights a dilemma that we face when we turn to new tools that promise to improve on law’s imperfect governance. On the one hand, our discontent with law’s governance is both broad and deep, and much of it is rooted in the...
The Fifth Industrial Revolution (Industry 5.0) foregrounds human–machine collaboration, sustainability, and resilience as organizing principles for next-generation cyber-physical systems. Yet the identity and access management (IAM) architectur...
As we progress towards Industry 5.0, technological advancements are converging; this movement is realised by the increasing collaboration between humans and intelligent digital platforms and further enabled by the interactive visualisation modes prov...
In science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education, artificial intelligence (AI) analytics are useful as educational scaffolds to educe (draw out) the students’ AI-Thinking skills in the form of AI-assisted human-centr...
Although manufacturing companies are currently situated at a transition point in what has been called Industry 4.0, a new revolutionary wave—Industry 5.0—is emerging as an ‘Age of Augmentation’ when the human and machine recon...
Background and Objectives: Currently, one in eight people over the age of 65 have dementia, and approximately 75% of caregiving is provided by volunteer family members with little or no training. This study aimed to quantify points of stress for home...
Industry 5.0 presents itself as a strategy that puts the human factor at the centre of production, where the well-being of the worker is prioritized, as well as more sustainable and resilient production systems. For human centricity, it is necessary...
In this survey paper, we focus on smart interactive technologies and providing a picture of the current state of the art, exploring the way new discoveries and recent technologies changed workers’ operations and activities on the factory floor....
The last decade saw the emergence of highly autonomous, flexible, re-configurable Cyber-Physical Systems. Research in this domain has been enhanced by the use of high-fidelity simulations, including Digital Twins, which are virtual representations co...
Background: Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative condition that impairs cognitive functions such as memory, language comprehension, and problem-solving. Assistive technologies can provide vital support at various stages of dementia, significan...
According to the World Bank, a key factor to poverty reduction and improving prosperity is financial inclusion. Financial service providers (FSPs) offering financially-inclusive solutions need to understand how to approach the underserved successfull...
In the context of the debate on the need to place citizens at the center of the technological revolution, this paper makes a case for a natural language processing (NLP) crowdsourcing platform that ensures inclusion and diversity, thus making the res...
Lighting-related behaviour in shared workplaces involves not only responses to environmental conditions but also self-reported choices, communication, and interaction with other occupants. This exploratory study examined lighting-related behaviour am...
This paper presents a novel integration of Systems Engineering (SE) methodologies and Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies in the design of robotic systems, focusing on enhancing underwater robotic missions. Using the conceptual design of an underwater e...
Industry 4.0, expected to limit the burden of manual labor through the integration of cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things (IoT), and machine learning methods, failed to meet social expectations. It started excluding humans from the product...
The World Bank has reported that over one billion individuals have a disability, implying that almost fifteen percent of the global inhabitants are susceptible to undergoing levels of discrimination, especially in employment. This issue may prevail o...
While it seems sensible that human-centred artificial intelligence (AI) means centring “human behaviour and experience,” it cannot be any other way. AI, I argue, is usefully seen as a relationship between technology and humans where it ap...
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The term ‘smart cities’ is a widely used, but at the same time a highly fuzzy concept. The fuzziness hinders our understanding on the benefits of its adoption, and explains the existence of many relevant activities with fragmented or distorted views...
Purpose: This study examines the preparedness of the Ghanaian construction workforce for Industry 5.0 by assessing digital readiness, identifying skill gaps, and proposing human-centred upskilling strategies. Design/Methodology/Approach: A qualitativ...
Achieving the energy and climate goals of sustainable development, declared by the UN as imperative and relevant for the upcoming Society 5.0 with its human-centricity of technological development, requires ensuring a “seamless” Fourth En...
With global urbanisation anticipated to reach 68% by 2050, there is a significant risk of exacerbating urban transport emissions. Urban transport decarbonisation is a complex adaptive system challenge, the understanding and optimisation of which coul...
The problems of achieving the UN’s sustainable development goals related to providing both developed and developing countries with cheap and accessible energy, as well as in the context of taking climate action, cannot be solved, on the one hand, wit...
Engineering human-centric urban transport systems should be carried out using information technology in forecasting traffic and passenger flows. One of the most important objects of urban transport systems’ progress is modeling patterns of tran...
Following the spread of the Industry 4.0 paradigm, the role of digital technologies in manufacturing, especially in production and industrial logistics processes, has become increasingly pivotal. Although the push towards digitalization and processes...
Non-terrestrial networks (NTNs) have become increasingly crucial, particularly with the standardization of fifth-generation (5G) technology. In parallel, the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has amplified the need for human-centric solut...
The transition from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 marks a pivotal shift toward human-centric manufacturing, where advanced technologies are designed to enhance rather than replace human capabilities. Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) play a vital rol...
New trends in industry emphasize green and sustainable production on the one hand and personalized or individualized production on the other hand. Introducing new manufacturing technologies and materials to integrate the customer’s specific req...
This study proposes and empirically assesses a bio-inspired conceptual framework, termed Digital DNA, for modeling Industry 5.0 transformation as a complementary extension of established Industry 4.0 principles with an explicit focus on human-centric...
The transition from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0 represents a shift toward human-centric work systems that prioritize employee well-being and meaningful human–technology collaboration. Research examining employee well-being, job satisfaction, a...
Human-centricity, a cornerstone of Industry 5.0, emphasizes the central role of human needs and capabilities in the technological landscape of modern manufacturing. As Digital Twins (DTs) become a core technology of Industry 4.0, the evolution toward...
In the context of Industry 5.0, the concept of the Metaverse aligns with the vision of Web 4.0, representing a digital ecosystem where individuals and organizations collaborate in a human-centric approach to create personalized value. This virtual un...
The emerging concept of Industry 5.0 is fostering companies to consider the three pillars of human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. How such a new perspective can be effectively declined and practically guide the introduction of new techno...
The shift from techno-centric to human-centric development is essential for smart cities to effectively leverage technological innovations and enhance the quality of life of citizens. Despite this recognition, there are limited studies that address t...
The Industry 5.0 paradigm reframes sustainable operations management around human-centric, resilient and responsible production, yet the conditions under which digital and AI-enabled manufacturing translate into genuine worker well-being—partic...
The educational value of artificial intelligence (AI) depends on technological capabilities and human–AI interaction. This is particularly relevant in interpreter training, which involves high cognitive demands, contextual decisions, and time-s...
Globalization and technology are presently impacting every aspect of life, with digital technologies helping to set the trend. Human-centricity and the ethical use of technology are integral components of Society 5.0, which emphasizes quality of life...
This paper will examine a methodology to enable the usage of Human Digital Twins (HDTs) for Quality Assurance in the aerospace manufacturing domain. Common-place hardware and infrastructure, including cloud-based facility security cameras, cloud-base...
The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the massive growth of devices connected to the Internet are reshaping modern societies. However, human lifestyles are not evolving at the same pace as technology, which often derives into users’ reluctan...
Industry 5.0 introduces a new paradigm where digital technologies support sustainable and human-centric industrial development. Within this context, resilience-based maintenance (RBM) emerges as a forward-looking maintenance strategy focused on syste...
Due to the wide-spread use of disruptive digital technologies like mobile phones, cities have transitioned from data-scarce to data-rich environments. As a result, the field of geoinformatics is being reshaped and challenged to develop adequate data-...
In the era of Industry 4.0, manufacturing and production systems were revolutionized by increasing operational efficiency and developing and implementing new business models, services, and products. Concretely, the milestone set for Industry 4.0 was...
This paper provides a classification of manufacturing types in terms of new technological tools provided in the Industry 5.0 framework. The manufacturing types agile, holonic, flexible and reconfigurable benefit from and are potentially changed by In...
Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), enabling communication infrastructure to simultaneously transmit data and sense the surrounding physical environment, is emerging as a cornerstone technology for sixth-generation (6G) mobile networks. Whil...
This study examines how selected technological and human-centered factors affect sustainable lean performance potential (SLPP) in manufacturing enterprises within the context of Industry 4.0 transition to Industry 5.0. The relationship between SLPP a...
Industry 5.0 introduces a transformative vision for manufacturing by emphasizing human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience in tandem with advanced technologies. While Industry 4.0 focused on automation and connectivity, Industry 5.0 shifts the...
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