Extended Reality for Assembly Training: Field Study of Skill Transfer to the Production Line

Authors

  • Katarina-D Bulatovic Centre for Immersive Technologies, Kolubara Institute of Advanced Technology, Valjevo, Serbia Author
  • Flavia Ludlow-Kerr Department of Human-Computer Interaction, Peak Forest Centre for Emerging Materials, Buxton, United Kingdom Author
  • Diane Erpelding Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Syre Valley Institute of Advanced Technology, Betzdorf, Luxembourg Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22673733

Keywords:

Extended Reality for Assembly Training; Next-generation R&D; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Extended Reality for Assembly Training has moved quickly from a niche engineering question to something a wider community
can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull together the
current evidence for extended reality for assembly training, covering the methodological, practical, regulatory and cost angles,
with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where engineers and reviewers are still largely working it out for
themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here than either broad rollout or
blanket avoidance.

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