Title :
Working in the office of "Real Soon Now"
Author :
Bishop, Gary ; Welch, Greg
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Abstract :
The "Office of Real Soon Now" is an ongoing experiment to see what it\´s like to use large-screen projection as our only computer display. We say "Real Soon Now" to contrast our experiment with the "Office of the Future", a project at the University of North Carolina that\´s building a much more sophisticated, laboratory-based environment in which multiple projectors seamlessly blend to display on most of the office surfaces. Our systems aren\´t nearly that fancy. Our idea was to experiment with systems we could build and operate within days. In our "Real Soon Now" offices, we use large-screen projection instead of conventional monitors. We\´ve been using these systems for more than a year, and we\´ll never go back.
Keywords :
computer displays; large screen displays; office automation; optical projectors; research initiatives; technological forecasting; Office of Real Soon Now; computer display; large-screen projection; Cathode ray tubes; Computer displays; Ergonomics; Eyes; Keyboards; Large screen displays; Meeting planning; Mice; Monitoring; Uniform resource locators;
Journal_Title :
Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE