A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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Design of the Swisshouse: A Physical/Virtual Cooperative Workspace
Abstract This paper describes the design of the Swisshouse, a physical/virtual cooperative workspace to foster networking and knowledge exchange among a distributed community of Swiss scientists, with business people, lawyers, doctors and politicians. The physical ”cooperative building” of the Swisshouse, will result from the transformation of an existing 3,200 sq.ft. large retail store located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into a wired loft-space, to be completed in December 1999. The design encompasses both a physical building and an intimately connected Internet-based web-space. In this paper, we describe our work-in-progress on the design of the interfaces between the two worlds. We present our current design of the embedded information devices that connect the virtual community, and -as architectural elements- define the physical cooperative loft space: an interactive information wall, stackable videoconferencing chairs, a knowledge café, a media space and a kinetic arena.
Design of the Swisshouse: A Physical/Virtual Cooperative Workspace
Abstract This paper describes the design of the Swisshouse, a physical/virtual cooperative workspace to foster networking and knowledge exchange among a distributed community of Swiss scientists, with business people, lawyers, doctors and politicians. The physical ”cooperative building” of the Swisshouse, will result from the transformation of an existing 3,200 sq.ft. large retail store located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, into a wired loft-space, to be completed in December 1999. The design encompasses both a physical building and an intimately connected Internet-based web-space. In this paper, we describe our work-in-progress on the design of the interfaces between the two worlds. We present our current design of the embedded information devices that connect the virtual community, and -as architectural elements- define the physical cooperative loft space: an interactive information wall, stackable videoconferencing chairs, a knowledge café, a media space and a kinetic arena.
Design of the Swisshouse: A Physical/Virtual Cooperative Workspace
Huang, Jeffrey (author) / Waldvogel, Muriel (author) / Lertsithichai, Surapong (author)
1999-01-01
6 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
cooperative buildings , videoconferencing , distance learning , shared workspaces , virtual communities , roomware Computer Science , User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction , Building Types and Functions , Office Management , Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems , Management of Computing and Information Systems , Computers and Society
Design of the Swisshouse: A Physical/Virtual Cooperative Workspace
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