Nikolaus Hagl, Annahita Esmailzadeh and Jan Cantzler from SAP introduce the next generation of user experience in Munich Urban Colab. The touchless kiosk is powered by NUIA and standard SAP solutions, which now can be fully controlled by gaze.

If you would like to learn how we worked together and what benefits touchless kiosk system deliver at SAP and other customers, have a look at the video below (German audio).

Workplaces have long been moving towards digital innovation and the pandemic made this shift essential. Managers who adapted to the sudden market transformation benefited early from the changing environment.

We’ll look at three key emerging workplace trends and give you some insight into the future systems and productive environments you’ll need to adapt. This will position your company as a thought leader and innovator, allowing you to embrace strategic leadership and nurture a thriving company culture.

"Historically, exceptional situations always give innovations a nudge. When the pandemic hit, companies of all sizes and areas of business had to rethink the ways their workforce would work best in the ‘new normal.’

Too little exercise, too much VDU work and stress are driving a steadily growing number of office workers into clinics. According to the results of a representative study conducted by the Bielefeld Emnid Institute on behalf of Berlin-Kölnische Health Insurance, one in three office workers in Germany now suffers from back pain, and one in five complains of problems with their eyes.

"On average, across when working in CAD, users do around 10,000 mouse clicks every single day. And every mouse click is a mouse move; almost every mouse click needs a mouse move. So, on average, you’re on 25% every day you have the mouse in your hands. So, there’s a huge potential in terms of not only efficiency but also ergonomics"

The daily sitting marathon begins at breakfast, continues in the car, later in the office, and then on the couch or at the movies. Anyone who has worked for 40 years and sits for eight hours a day has spent a total of around 70,000 hours at a desk - sitting. Pure stress for the body.

The Windows application NUIA Full Focus directs the user's gaze towards the camera during video calls. In this way, it conveys constant eye contact to the conversation partner, even if the user is studying something else on the screen.

Original German article from c't magazine 6-2021, p.87 by Hans-Peter Schüler

Until now, eye control for computers was only something for people with disabilities or for gamers. Soon it will be part of everyday life.

As one of the chosen startups for the Plug And Play Smart Cities Program in Vienna, Austria, we are happy and delighted to have received the Batch 0 Innovation Award on 10th December, 2020 - actually the founding anniversary of 4tiitoo.

Stephan Odörfer was the guest of this weeks IT-techBlog podcast hosted by Michael Hülskötter to talk about 4tiitoo's latest product NUIA Full Focus and the journey of creating it.