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Moving office: inhabiting a dynamic building

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Holger Schnädelbach,

Boriana Koleva,

Tom RoddenAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '06: Proceedings of the 2006 20th anniversary conference on Computer supported cooperative work

Pages 313 - 322

https://doi.org/10.1145/1180875.1180924

Published: 04 November 2006 Publication History

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Mixed Reality Architecture (MRA) supports distributed teams in their everyday work activities by linking multiple physical spaces across a shared three-dimensional virtual world. User configurable audio-visual connections give the inhabitants of MRA full control over whom they want to be in contact with and when they make themselves available, as well as over the overall configuration. We report on the design of MRA, its deployment in an office environment and results from a long-term observational study. The study shows that MRA supports the management of awareness, social interaction and privacy well, that the architectural design features are crucial for this process and that the dynamic architectural topology of MRA and social interaction within it are linked in a fundamental way.

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