The main goal of ESPRIT project 82 is to build an intelligent office workstation (IWS). A knowledge-based approach was chosen to overcome the complexity resulting from the open-endedness of the office domain and the dynamic characteristics of the office environment. The knowledge representation system KRS is used to represent knowledge in the office domain. On the one hand, domain knowledge inv...

The salaries of office workers are many times higher than the cost of operating a building in developed countries (Woods, 1989; Seppänen, 1999). Consequently, even small improvements in human performance and productivity following improvements of indoor environmental quality (IEQ) can result in a substantial economic benefit. Based on very conservative assumptions, Fisk and Rosenfeld (1997) est...

A mobile eye tracker was used to collect viewing behavior in a mixed reality immersive Cave Automatic Virtual Environment (CAVE) environment to evaluate a design concept of a tourist information office. The synthetic office consists of physical artifacts and virtual contents projected onto three walls of a room-sized cube. A Think Aloud study was conducted with both a goal-oriented condition an...

The online office is one of web application. We can easily use the online office through a web browser with internet connected PC. The online office has the advantage of using environment regardless of location or time. When users want to use the online office, they access the online office server and use their content. However, recently developed and launched online office has the weakness of ...

This paper describes a distributed context processing architecture for an Active Office as an implementation model of an Intelligent Environment. It describes the IE repository, IE resolution, knowledge-based and resources manager as an integrated part of context awareness mechanism which plays an important role in an Active Office. It proposes how the scalable distribution of context and user ...