RI-IWEAR Research Seminar III:Adoption of Wearable Sensors in Construction Research

Dr. JoonOh SEO is an associate professor in the Department of Building and Real Estate, PolyU. He obtained his PhD degree in Civil Engineering (construction management programme) from the University of Michigan in the United States. His research focuses on understanding the relationship between construction workers’ demands and their impact on construction operations. In his studies, various computing and IT approaches—including vision-based motion capture, machine learning-based action recognition, and computer simulation such as discrete event simulation and system dynamics—have been applied and implemented. In particular, he is interested in total scene understanding and wearable sensing, aiming to enhance construction workers’ performances such as safety, health, and productivity. Also, he is currently working on Augmented and Immersive Virtual Reality (AR/IVR) for enhancing construction workers’ safety behavior.

Dr. Yantao YU is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She won the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship in 2017, and received her doctoral degree in construction informatics from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) in 2020. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degree in construction management from Tsinghua University in 2014 and 2017, respectively. Before joining HKUST in 2021, she was a research assistant professor at PolyU. Her research interests are smart construction technologies, construction robotics, and occupational safety and health. For more informaion about her research, pleae refer to https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0400-3068.

Dr.Xiaowei Luo is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. degree in Construction Engineering and Project Management from the University of Texas at Austin, M.S and B.S. degrees in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in 2006. His main research interests include Construction Safety Management, Information Technology in Construction, Wireless Sensing Technologies, Augmented and Virtual Reality, Digital Twin, and Sustainable Buildings. His current research projects focus on the development and deployment of information and sensing technologies to advance construction safety and efficiency as well as improve the quality and sustainability of construction projects. Dr. Luo has authored and co-authored a number of highly cited journal publications, conference articles, and book chapters on the aforementioned topics. In addition, he has received several grants from various agencies, including NSFC and RGC.