Online Conference on
Learning and Teaching with Technology
in Art Design and Communication
DeL Online March 2006: speakers: Peter Purgathofer
Peter Purgathofer
Sharc - ad hoc group collaboration support
Sharc is a proposed tool for ad hoc group collaboration. The target audience is teams of professionals or students working on multimedia content.
The aim of the project is to foster the group design process. Notebook computers are a quite recent addition to collaborative settings. Typically, they enable people to access and exchange a vast repository of information and material in a fast and convenient way.
At the same time, the open lid of the notebook computer cuts off a little portion of the public space and turns it into private space. What happens on the notebook screen is hidden to the other participants, which often generates the suspicion that people would check email, surf the web or do unrelated things on the computer - a suspicion that is not always baseless.
Sharc aims to reclaim the public space and enable all participants to use their notebook computers to the full advantage of the groups situation.
A system developed to specifically support this situation must work ad-hoc, serverless and without additional technologies such as large screens or video beamers, while still being able to make constructive use of such facilities.
Such a system could be used in professional design settings as well as in teaching and learning of design.
Biography
Peter
Purgathofer is Assistant Professor at the Design and Assessment of Technology
Institute, Faculty for Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology.
He works in interface and game design and design theory. He is also founder and head of the User Interface Design Lab which is a collaborative effort between a local Industrial Design Company and the Institute in order to develop interface design knowledge applied to practical projects.
In recent years, uid-lab has conducted numerous projects with international partners in commerce and art, receiving among others an award of distinction at the Ars Electronica Festival.
Peter Purgathofer
University of Technology Vienna
Institute of Design and Assessment of Technology
Favoritenstr. 9-11/187
1040 Vienna
Austria
Tel: +4 31 58801 187 23
Fax: +4 31 58801 18793
Email: purg@igw.tuwien.ac.at
Web: www.tuwien.ac.at/
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