Designing User Friendly Augmented Work Environments From Meeting Rooms to Digital Collaborative Spaces /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lahlou, Saadi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2010.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Multimedia information systems.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer Science.; Multimedia Information Systems.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Augmented environments – where objects are empowered by underlying information technology, are now installed in an ever-growing number of offices, public spaces and homes. However designing them to be usable and user-friendly remains a challenge. This book provides an overview and summary of the key...

Table of Contents:

• Augmented Environments and Design
• The Stanford Interactive Workspaces Project
• Towards a Global Concept of Collaborative Space
• Designing an Easy-to-use Executive Conference Room Control System
• Experimental Reality: Principles for the Design of Augmented Environments
• Co-design Approaches for Early Phases of Augmented Environments
• Ubiquitous Working Environments
• Psychological Methods for the Study of Augmented Environments
• Opportunities and Challenges for Augmented Environments: A Distributed Cognition Perspective
• The Aachen Media Space: Design Patterns for Augmented Work Environments.