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| The issue of identifying
and locating devices in buildings and in global distributed environments
is crucial to our work. Using sensors, one can acquire information
on who is located where, connected with whom and interacting with
whom. This can be used to structure the cooperation process among
people and to provide the corresponding means and information needed
by an individual or a team. The following scenario illustrates part
of this idea: A project team enters the room. The "room senses" the members of the team, compares this list to previous users of the room and identifies a team and the project discussed at the last meeting. If the team wants to, the room configures itself restoring the state of the last meeting including the set of documents they were working on before. The content and the structure of the information is displayed again on the different roomware® components (e.g., the DynaWall®, the InteracTable®). Thus, the team can continue right where they were at the end of the last meeting. A generalization of this idea results in what we call attentive, active, and adaptive rooms or environments (A3-environments). "Attentive" means that the environment is able to observe a room, a hallway or another area of the building it is assigned to. It will be able to identify and locate people by various means (e.g., active badges, image recognition, video analysis). The same is possible for tagged and/or networked de-vices, e.g., the roomware components. Being informed about who and what is there and what is going on, the A3-environment can be "active" by (re)acting in correspon-dence with predefined rules, e.g. providing information that there is a prepared agenda for the current meeting, that a team member who attended the last meeting is not present or vice versa, etc. Furthermore, it can be "adaptive" by configuring the whole room or part of it according to context information on what the room should be used for, e.g., displaying the work environment of a specific project team. A3-environments are adaptive in the sense of auto configuration but they can also be adapted by the user or the team. In both cases, the same room can be orchestrated for multiple pur-poses providing interactive information landscapes for changing team or project con-ditions. More application scenarios exist for interactions in the hallway, the foyer, etc. Contact Person Norbert Streitz (streitz@ipsi.fhg.de) |
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