Title :
roomComputers-bridging spaces
Author :
Reinema, R. ; Bahr, K. ; Burkhardt, H.-J. ; Moschgath, M.-L. ; Hovestadt, L.
Author_Institution :
GMD Inst. for Secure Telecooperation, Darmstadt, Germany
Abstract :
Cooperative Rooms (COR) is an interdisciplinary research and development program of GMD in collaboration with partners. Its objective is to design, develop and investigate future workspaces by bringing together information and communication technology, architecture, design and management of buildings, and new flexible forms of individual and joint work. This paper concentrates on bridging the gap between physical and virtual work environments by the development of an innovative device, called roomComputer. The roomComputer is an embedded system and as such offers unprecedented chances to administer distributed physical work environments of people from virtual ones and vice versa
Keywords :
embedded systems; groupware; Cooperative Rooms; distributed physical work environments; embedded system; information and communication technology; interdisciplinary research and development program; physical work; roomComputer; virtual work; Buildings; Collaborative work; Communications technology; Computer architecture; Information technology; Research and development; Space technology; Technology management; Technology planning; Urban planning;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 7th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0468-X
DOI :
10.1109/FTDCS.1999.818787
