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Comment:
COALA will develop a Digital Intelligent Assistant (DIA) that can advise blue collar workers, such as machine operators and line managers, in complex, agile, and quality-focused discrete or process manufacturing industry. At this concern, human-centred interaction with the assistant needs to consider aspects such as the instant availability of information, support to problem solving of an adaptive system (e.g. context-awareness, internal information parsing, and impact evaluation).
COALA calls for a new experience in human-machine collaboration: it fosters a vision of human-AI symbiosis in which AI augments its users instead of replacing and devaluing them. COALA aims to assist human reasoning, keep humans in decision making without directing them algorithmically.