From: Ron Roozendaal (ron@rivm.nl)
Subject: TECH: Comments wanted on future workstations: official project
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1993 13:49:10 GMT
Organization: RIVM 


Crossposted from comp.human-factors


Hi all,

(For some this might be the second time you read this. But the article
has been received empty in some countries..).

We are currently undertaken a project, that we want to sollicit
comments, ideas etc. on. I will include a short descritiption. In
short, we have the following questions:

We also would like to know if you know any related projects, products
etc.  that might be of interest.


Thanks in advance, please e-mail replies,


Ron

About the project

WORKSTATIONS OF THE FUTURE

.... is a project aimed at establishing (sometime in the not too
distant future...) a new workstation concept for researchers at our
institue (which, BTW, is like a combination of EPA and NIH in the US;
about 2000 employees).

The workstation will be a 'the view on the world'. It would contain a
set of 'objects and actions' that are relevant to the particular
person.  Things like statistics, coupled models, remote databases,
vizualation, intergroup agenda, group activities etc. would be there.
We see this concept as a set of actions and objects, from which one
could compose one's own 'world'.

We are working on parts of the concept now. A model-editor has been
established, information retrieval (mail, news, WAIS, Gopher and other
services) is being worked on. Real groupware is still left out.

This concept of the 'workstation' is seen as important by the board of
directors. Their view of the workstation is a technical world of
coupled models and database and cooperating researchers, that the
workstation would facilitate.

At the moment I am trying to set up a project for the groupware part
of it (the coupled models, people working on the same project using
groupware tools, shared windows etc.). We would encourage every help
from others, and are also looking for institutes having ideas or being
able to demonstrate work that has been done on this subject or on the
workstation concept as a whole.


  Ron Roozendaal (ron@rivm.nl)
  Senior Consultant
  National Institute on Public Health and Environmental Protection (RIVM)
  Informatics Service Centre
  Postbox 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, the Netherlands
  Tel. ++31 30 742790, Fax. ++31 30 282 316