---
_id: '4897'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Assistance is becoming increasingly relevant in carrying out industrial work
    in the context of cyber-physical production systems (CPPSs) and Industry 4.0.
    While assistance in a single task via a single interaction modality has been explored
    previously, crossdevice interaction could improve the quality of assistance, especially
    given the concurrent and distributed nature of work in CPPSs. In this paper, we
    present the theoretical foundations and implementation of MiWSICx (Middleware
    for Work Support in Industrial Contexts), a middleware that showcases how multiple
    interactive computing devices such as tablets, smartphones, augmented/virtual
    reality glasses, and wearables could be combined to provide crossdevice industrial
    assistance. Based on activity theory, MiWSICx models human work as activities
    combining multiple users, artifacts, and cyber-physical objects. MiWSICx is developed
    using the actor model for deployment on a variety of hardware alongside a CPPS
    to provide multiuser, crossdevice, multiactivity assistance.
author:
- first_name: Hitesh
  full_name: Dhiman, Hitesh
  id: '71767'
  last_name: Dhiman
- first_name: Carsten
  full_name: Röcker, Carsten
  id: '61525'
  last_name: Röcker
citation:
  ama: Dhiman H, Röcker C. Middleware for providing activity-driven assistance in
    cyber-physical production systems. <i>Journal of Computational Design and Engineering</i>.
    2021;8(1):428-451. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jcde/qwaa088">10.1093/jcde/qwaa088</a>
  apa: Dhiman, H., &#38; Röcker, C. (2021). Middleware for providing activity-driven
    assistance in cyber-physical production systems. <i>Journal of Computational Design
    and Engineering</i>, <i>8</i>(1), 428–451. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jcde/qwaa088">https://doi.org/10.1093/jcde/qwaa088</a>
  bjps: <b>Dhiman H and Röcker C</b> (2021) Middleware for Providing Activity-Driven
    Assistance in Cyber-Physical Production Systems. <i>Journal of Computational Design
    and Engineering</i> <b>8</b>, 428–451.
  chicago: 'Dhiman, Hitesh, and Carsten Röcker. “Middleware for Providing Activity-Driven
    Assistance in Cyber-Physical Production Systems.” <i>Journal of Computational
    Design and Engineering</i> 8, no. 1 (2021): 428–51. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jcde/qwaa088">https://doi.org/10.1093/jcde/qwaa088</a>.'
  chicago-de: 'Dhiman, Hitesh und Carsten Röcker. 2021. Middleware for providing activity-driven
    assistance in cyber-physical production systems. <i>Journal of Computational Design
    and Engineering</i> 8, Nr. 1: 428–451. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jcde/qwaa088,">10.1093/jcde/qwaa088,</a>
    .'
  din1505-2-1: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Dhiman, Hitesh</span> ; <span
    style="font-variant:small-caps;">Röcker, Carsten</span>: Middleware for providing
    activity-driven assistance in cyber-physical production systems. In: <i>Journal
    of Computational Design and Engineering</i> Bd. 8. Oxford, Oxford University Press
    (2021), Nr. 1, S. 428–451'
  havard: H. Dhiman, C. Röcker, Middleware for providing activity-driven assistance
    in cyber-physical production systems, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering.
    8 (2021) 428–451.
  ieee: H. Dhiman and C. Röcker, “Middleware for providing activity-driven assistance
    in cyber-physical production systems,” <i>Journal of Computational Design and
    Engineering</i>, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 428–451, 2021.
  mla: Dhiman, Hitesh, and Carsten Röcker. “Middleware for Providing Activity-Driven
    Assistance in Cyber-Physical Production Systems.” <i>Journal of Computational
    Design and Engineering</i>, vol. 8, no. 1, Oxford University Press, 2021, pp.
    428–51, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/jcde/qwaa088">10.1093/jcde/qwaa088</a>.
  short: H. Dhiman, C. Röcker, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering 8 (2021)
    428–451.
  ufg: '<b>Dhiman, Hitesh/Röcker, Carsten (2021)</b>: Middleware for providing activity-driven
    assistance in cyber-physical production systems, in: <i>Journal of Computational
    Design and Engineering</i> <i>8</i> (<i>1</i>), S. 428–451.'
  van: Dhiman H, Röcker C. Middleware for providing activity-driven assistance in
    cyber-physical production systems. Journal of Computational Design and Engineering.
    2021;8(1):428–51.
date_created: 2021-02-04T15:20:11Z
date_updated: 2023-03-15T13:49:56Z
department:
- _id: DEP5023
- _id: DEP5027
doi: 10.1093/jcde/qwaa088
intvolume: '         8'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- human–technology interaction
- human–computer interaction
- crossdevice interaction
- cyber-physical systems
- assistance
- smart factory
- middleware
- actor model
- information system design
- industry 4.0
language:
- iso: eng
page: 428-451
place: Oxford
publication: Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
publication_identifier:
  eissn:
  - '2288-4300 '
publication_status: published
publisher: Oxford University Press
status: public
title: Middleware for providing activity-driven assistance in cyber-physical production
  systems
type: journal_article
user_id: '15514'
volume: 8
year: 2021
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