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Going Public: Collaborative Systems Design for Multidisciplinary Conversations

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Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations, and Architecture (CoBuild 1999)

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The driving idea behind our work has been the concept of going public with the goal of supporting the emerging work practices of multidisciplinary teams. In this chapter, we outline the theoretical basis for going public, describe the underlying architecture of a public collaborative system and introduce two embodiments, the Design Conference RoomTM and the Collaborative ClassroomTM. The underlying architecture of a public collaborative system, overlaid with lines of view, sight, and control, provides system-sharing functionality via the Reconfigurable Collaboration NetworkTM, supporting fully collaborative conversations, with their trajectory of work processes from private, to public, and back again. Innovations are described in the disciplinary domains of architecture, computer science, and communication.

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  1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA, 12180

    Cheryl Geisler, Edwin H. Rogers & John Tobin

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  1. Fraunhofer IPSI, Darmstadt, Germany

    Norbert A. Streitz

  2. HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 5000 Forbes Avenue, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jane Siegel

  3. Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics School for Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Volker Hartkopf

  4. IPSI - Integrated Publication and Information Systems Institute, GMD - German National Research Center for Information Technology, Dolivostr. 15, D-64293, Darmstadt, Germany

    Shin’ichi Konomi

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Geisler, C., Rogers, E.H., Tobin, J. (1999). Going Public: Collaborative Systems Design for Multidisciplinary Conversations. In: Streitz, N.A., Siegel, J., Hartkopf, V., Konomi, S. (eds) Cooperative Buildings. Integrating Information, Organizations, and Architecture. CoBuild 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1670. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10705432_9

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