(Semi-) Autonomous Work Groups Volker Wulf Fraunhofer FIT and Technical University of Chemnitz IDAK-Workshop —1— © 2001, Volker Wulf, Fraunhofer FIT Background: personal ? ? ? ? ? Studied Computer Science and Business Administration PhD and habilitation in Computer Science 1991 – 2000: ProSEC: Project Group on HCI and CSCW at the University of Bonn 2000: GMD-FIT nowadays: Fraunhofer-FIT 2001: Media Design at the Technical University of Chemnitz IDAK-Workshop —2— © 2001, Volker Wulf, Fraunhofer FIT Background: Semiautonomous work groups ? Diploma thesis: EU research project on Human Centred CIM » BICC Technologies, Hemel Hampstead » HDZ of RWTH Aachen ? Concept of a work group oriented CAD-System » Support for early phases of the design process: E-pencil input » Documentation of group discussions: multimedia annotations ? Attempt to transfer of the organizational concept to office environments: Helplines working with computer integrated telephony IDAK-Workshop —3— © 2001, Volker Wulf, Fraunhofer FIT Recent Projects: OrgTech ? Duration 1998 - 2000 ? Partners FhG-IGD; Universität Bremen; MA&T GmbH ? In g e n ieu rb ü ro 2 In g e n ie u rb ü ro 1 Field of Application » Steel mill » two external engineering firms ? Technologies » » » » Document management Access control WAU-Audio-Tool Application Sharing IDAK-Workshop H ü t te n w e r k —4— © 2001, Volker Wulf, Fraunhofer FIT Recent Projects: KokoBel Duration Montagezone 2001 - 2003 ? Partners Objekt A Field of Application » Production planning involving actors with different backgrounds ? 1 op on skt De trukti ns Ko FhG-IGD FhG-IPA ? Desktop 2 Organisation Funktionszone De sk Ab top 3 läu fe ? Technologies » » » » Table for joint planning Public and semi-private spheres Integration of different application E-pencil and gesture input IDAK-Workshop —5— Weltprojektion © 2001, Volker Wulf, Fraunhofer FIT