Collaboration and Modeling in Ambient Systems: Vision, Concepts and Experiments

Abstract

We focus on organizations developing products: A product is developed through the development of a model of the product and the model is developed through collaboration among developers. We relate the model in physical and informational spaces. Actual interaction with informational model space has effect on the physical space and vice versa. The collaboration process is supported by a collaboration environment where we relate informational and physical spaces. Actual collaboration in physical space is reflected in the informational space and vice versa. Finally, also model and collaboration environment are related.