Pervasive computing challenge:

Designing for an understanding of a transparent interface, privacy concerns.

Question: Do we still need office buildings (Dr. Dr. thinks yes)? “Cooperative buildings”. No longer the place for individual activities, but for planned social/group activities. “Smart environments”; attentive, adaptive, active.

Roomware^TM: iLand — an interactive landscape for creativity and innovation. 2nd gen. for Wilkhahn (office furniture makers). Beach: Software for interactive walls. Version with audio augmentation — room laughs. And so on. This is turning into a Fraunhofer product show.

Smart environments: System-oriented / People-oriented. “Smart spaces make people smarter”. Refrigerator ordering stuff not being consumed because of circumstances outside its knowledge vs. ‘people-empowerment’ through system-to.person information.

Smartness trade-off: sensor data for decision-making, tailoring etc. vs. control over data.

Now he’s back in overview mode, mentioning partners, going through a large number of interesting-looking projects that he haven’t got time to comment on properly. He is, however, throwing in comments about lack of time for explaining. There is actually a way to get around that, you know…

Communication through environments: Patterns, ambient messaging. Connecting Remote Sites: Communication mood etc. across remote locations.