roomComputers Bridging Spaces
R. Reinema , K. Bahr , H.-J. Burkhardt, M.-L. Moschgath, L. Hovestadt
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.