Creativity Rooms for the Information Society
Working in the future is tightly connected to the office of the future as the place for processing information and knowledge. Modern information and communication technologies change the office world. Electronic interaction will become increasingly multimodal: video-conferences combine image and sound, holographic effects combined with audio and video sensors allow a telepresence, exoskeletal systems with data gloves, artificial robotic limbs, an "intelligent 2nd skin" etc. will be able to feel touching and to transmit this to haptic output devices. Research activities leading to miniaturized electronic products, which can be replaced and worn with ease and which are connected to man's organs by exonerves are still a vision. All individual personal electronic devices like headphones, mobile phone, dictating machine, satellite navigation system, medical monitoring systems etc. are seamlessly woven into a wireless body network and link man, who will become a cyborg, to the worldwide digital network. For instance he may have his current locative coordinates displayed through a navigation system or e-mails by "intelligent glasses" through laser projection.