Designing User Friendly Augmented Work Environments

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Augmented Environments and Design

   • Saadi Lahlou

   Pages 1-29

3. The Stanford Interactive Workspaces Project

   • Brad Johanson, Armando Fox, Terry Winograd

   Pages 31-61

4. Towards a Global Concept of Collaborative Space

   • Volker Hartkopf, Vivian Loftness, Azizan Aziz

   Pages 63-85

5. Designing an Easy-to-use Executive Conference Room Control System

   • Maribeth Back, Gene Golovchinsky, Pernilla Qvarfordt, William van Melle, John Boreczky, Tony Dunnigan et al.

   Pages 87-112

6. Experimental Reality: Principles for the Design of Augmented Environments

   • Saadi Lahlou

   Pages 113-157

7. Co-design Approaches for Early Phases of Augmented Environments

   • François Jégou

   Pages 159-189

8. Ubiquitous Working Environments

   • Carl Gustaf Jansson

   Pages 191-212

9. Psychological Methods for the Study of Augmented Environments

   • Valery N. Nosulenko, Elena S. Samoylenko

   Pages 213-236

10. Opportunities and Challenges for Augmented Environments: A Distributed Cognition Perspective

    • James D. Hollan, Edwin L. Hutchins

    Pages 237-259

11. The Aachen Media Space: Design Patterns for Augmented Work Environments

    • Jan Borchers

    Pages 261-312

12. Back Matter

    Pages 313-321

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This book aims at capitalizing and transmitting know-how about the design of Augmented Environments (AE) from some of the most prominent laboratories in the field worldwide. The authors belong to the RUFAE network (Research on User- Friendly Augmented Environments, founded in 2002) who meet in research seminars to share experience; Writing this book was perceived as an opportunity to look back over the last few years to sum up important findings; and formalize their approach and experience, which they never had the time or opportunity to do. Although the authors of this book have very different backgrounds, striking similarities emerge in their approach and design principles: never-endingness, activity-orientedness, continuous design, realism are some of the pillars of this approach; enabling to deal with the complex, heterogeneous, multi-user and mul- purpose constructions which AE designers have to face. The book illustrates how these principles enabled them to construct robust, ef- cient, and user-friendly Augmented Environments in spite of the many challenges to make these operational. We hope their experience will help the reader. Primary audience: Academics, Students and Professionals involved in the CHI, CSCW, Ubicomp, Cooperative Building communities. Computer Scientists int- ested by end-users and applications, Social Scientists operating in the IT domain, IT & Organization Consultants. Secondary audience: Developers of office and conferencing applications or middleware, Architects of office buildings, Space Planners, Designers; Facility Managers; IT, furniture & building Business Communities.

• Augmented Environments
• Design
• Haptik
• Interaction
• haptics
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• pervasive computing
• ubiquitous computing

• Paris, France

  Saadi Lahlou

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