From: konomi@darmstadt.gmd.de (Dr. Shinichi Konomi) Subject: CFP: Workshop on Cooperative Buildings Date: 18 Oct 1997 11:04:53 GMT Message-ID: <62a54l$c51$24@mars.darmstadt.gmd.de> Organization: GMD Darmstadt, Germany _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ Announcement and Call for Papers _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP _/ _/ on _/ _/ _/ _/ COOPERATIVE BUILDINGS _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ at the crossroads of information and communication technology, new work practices and organizational innovation, architecture and facility management 25.- 26. February 1998 Darmstadt, Germany Organized by the German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH) http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/CoopBuild98/ OBJECTIVES The workshop will provide a forum for researchers and practitioners who develop and use innovative work environments by making use of recent advances in information and communication technology, new concepts in work organisation, and a comprehensive perspective on office building design. Attention will be focussed on ways and means to enable and support flexible forms of communication and collaboration for a variety of groups ranging from small local teams to large distributed organizations, utilizing a seamless integration of physical and digital objects, of real work spaces and virtual information spaces embedded in real architectural environments. MOTIVATION In the future, individual and cooperative work in organizations will be characterized by a degree of flexibility and dynamics that will go far beyond many of today's developments and examples. On demand and ad-hoc teams, virtual organizations, distributed and mobile workers are only initial examples of organizational innovation to be expected in the future. The role of information and communication technology in this development is manifold. On the one hand, it initiates and triggers new forms of communication and cooperation processes. On the other hand, it provides the infrastructure and application software needed to meet the requirements which result from new ideas on organizing work practices. Contents and participants of work as well as contexts, processes and structures will be changing frequently. It is time to reflect these developments in the design of equally flexible and dynamic work spaces. The advent of information and communication technology already changed work processes and contents of work significantly. However, the design of work spaces, especially the physical work environments realized in offices and buildings, remained almost unchanged. Current work spaces are not prepared for or oriented towards a comprehensive integration of the IT-infrastructure supporting work processes with the infrastructure for managing and operating the building (=> facility management). To facilitate the evolution of new forms of work and organization at a high level of quality, it is necessary to integrate innovative information and communication technology (hardware, software, networks) with powerful spatial and physical structures (=> "roomware"). This results also in new challenges for architectural design: more flexible and adaptable building structures, dynamic reconfigurability of offices and work places, computer-based planning and building models which exist and are maintained for the lifetime of buildings. APPROACH The concept of a "Cooperative Building" suggests a setting made to foster human collaboration and communication. While it serves the purpose of cooperation it is at the same time "cooperative" towards its inhabitants. A Cooperative Building is an environment, which offers the people who live and work in and around it, special and unprecedented facilities for communication and cooperation purposes. It adapts dynamically as working conditions or technological conditions change. The workshop is meant to discuss what it takes to design and build Cooperative Buildings as models and examples of future work environments blending real and virtual worlds. Since this endeavor requires a highly interdisciplinary approach, we will focus especially on the relationships between organisational, architectural, and technological factors. Pertinent aspects have been investigated and realized in various places of the world in recent years. This workshop is a place to report on and to discuss relevant research, prototypes, experiments, pioneering efforts etc. and to learn from experience; it is a place to draw conclusions for an integrated development in the future and to bring up new aspects and ideas. TOPICS While reports on specific aspects and solutions are not excluded, workshop participants are encouraged to strive for presenting papers and reports which integrate views and topics from different disciplines. Some specific areas of interest are: What work organization proposes and asks for: - flexible work organization models - dynamic assignment of tasks and work spaces - ad hoc and on demand teams - teleworking scenarios and requirements - virtual organizations - flexible work areas such as business/ science club - dynamic sharing of office space - virtual offices - mobility and reachability management - workflow management - workgroup computing - adaptive information management - virtual group and project meetings ..... What information technology can provide: - computer-supported cooperative work environments - hypermedia/ multimedia information systems - new forms of human-computer interaction - multimedia conferencing - electronic meeting rooms - interactive electronic walls - smart, active and adaptive rooms - things that think - augmented reality - ubiquitous computing - network infrastructure - wireless networks - mobile and nomadic computing - active badges - personal orientation systems - multimodal interfaces - recognition of movements, gestures, etc; - tracing and tracking objects - visualization techniques - virtual reality applications - public information systems and kiosks - security infrastructure .... What architecture has to offer: - Information Buildings with integral building, space und business management - transformation of work spaces to living spaces and vice versa - new building typologies - new planning and construction methods - flexible building structures (construction, facade, walls ...) - integral facility management - flexible technical systems (heating, air conditioning, installations ...) - flexible and ergonomic interior design (furniture, lighting, acoustics) - intelligent building components - sustainable, smart, and recycling materials - stand alone energy concepts - personal feedback of energy and material flows - daylight-technologies - hybrid combinations of information technologies and natural forces - AI techniques for building design and maintenance - sustainable concepts for urban design and architecture ..... PARTICIPATION AND SUBMISSION OF PAPERS In order to preserve the characteristics of a workshop, the number of presentations and attendees will be limited for the benefit of structured discussion and sufficient opportunities for informal exchange of ideas. The workshop languages are English and in some cases German. Prospective attendees are invited to submit and present a paper (English is preferred but German is also possible), which will be evaluated with regard to its relevance to the workshop and published in the Proceedings. There are two types of papers: - full papers for a 20 minutes presentation 10 pages maximum incl. a 200 word abstract - short papers for a 10 minutes presentation 5 pages maximum incl. a 100 word abstract In parallel to the hard copy version of the manuscripts, we strongly encourage electronic submissions in Postscript. Please watch the website for details on the format of submissions. The publisher of the proceedings will be announced with the information about acceptance of the papers. Please submit your papers before 11. November 1997 to the programme chair at the following address: Dr. Dr. Norbert Streitz GMD-IPSI Dolivostr. 15 D - 64293 Darmstadt Germany For more information and update of details in the future please check the workshop's website at http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/CoopBuild98/ Conference Chairs ----------------- Heinz-Juergen Burkhardt GMD-TKT, Darmstadt Norbert A. Streitz GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt Programme Committee ------------------- Norbert A. Streitz (Chair) GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt Roy Ascott University of Wales College Newport Knut Bahr GMD-TKT, Darmstadt Hans-Joerg Bullinger FhG-IAO, Stuttgart Heinz-Juergen Burkhardt GMD-TKT, Darmstadt Ernest Edmonds University of Loughborough Kay Friedrichs ifib, University of Karlsruhe Wilhelm Glaser University of Tuebingen Volker Hartkopf Carnegie Mellon University Ludger Hovestadt University of Kaiserslautern Hiroshi Ishii MIT MediaLab Christel Kumbruck provet, Kassel Saadi Lahlou Electricite de France, Paris Gale Moore University of Toronto Tom Moran Xerox PARC William Mitchell MIT School of Architecture Steven Poltrock Boeing Company, Seattle Ralf Reichwald Technical University Muenchen Jun Rekimoto SONY Computer Science Lab, Tokyo Ken Sakamura University of Tokyo Gerhard Schmitt ETH Zuerich Jean Schweitzer Siemens Saarbruecken Ralf Steinmetz GMD-IPSI and Darmstadt University of Technology Heinz Thielmann GMD-TKT, Darmstadt Organization Committee ---------------------- Knut Bahr GMD-TKT, Darmstadt Heinz-Juergen Burkhardt GMD-TKT, Darmstadt Joerg Geissler GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt Shin'ichi Konomi GMD-IPSI, Darmstadt Rolf Reinema GMD-TKT, Darmstadt _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/