On site maintenance using a wearable computer system

This poster displays a vision of the future of vehicle maintenance. This future includes a wearable computer system that can be operated with the mechanics’ hands free. The computer system will provide necessary information to solve maintenance tasks and to communicate with collaborators. The ability to support both solo and collaborative maintenance activity, especially trouble shooting and the ability to effectively deliver light weight, hands free information access will be achieved through improvements in both technology and HCI. The poster displays the current state, a vision of the future and identifies the HCI and technological improvements necessary to achieve this future state of vehicle maintenance.