CSCW coordinates the business areas
FIT has a long track record of successfully designing, implementing and introducing such systems, including one of the first European email systems and BSCW, the Internet-based groupware system serving over a million users.
Head
Prof. Wolfgang Prinz, PhD
Phone: +49 2241 14-2730
wolfgang.prinz@fit.fraunhofer.de
Building on the longest CSCW experience of any organization in Europe, FIT.CSCW develops and evaluates novel groupware, community and knowledge management systems for distributed organizations and teams. The guideline are intuitive, situated tools that can be used ad-hoc, yet be seamlessly embedded in processes and technical environments, together with concepts for organizational implementation and usage. FIT's collaborative workspace system BSCW is also used in the Synergeia platform for collaborative learning that we developed in the EU-funded ITCOLE project and offer now as a web service. In the MILK project a BSCW based knowledge management solution has been developed that integrates interactive large screen displays and mobile devices. Our Mixed Reality approach extends the natural modeling and cooperation environments of, e.g., city planners and event managers to foster easy collaborative change management. The application in pervasive games turns our real environment into an augmented playground.
Our topics are:
Cooperation and Community Support
Community portals, (mobile) communities and cooperation; Internet-based groupware; cooperative knowledge management; application service providing for cooperative work and virtual teams; rating and recommender systems; cooperative learning environments.
Prof. Wolfgang Prinz, PhD
Phone: +49 2241 14-2730
wolfgang.prinz@fit.fraunhofer.de
Collaborative Virtual and Augmented Environments
Mixed and augmented reality; personal displays; computer vision for object recognition and tracking; tracking and device hardware prototyping; virtual product design; AR applications in engineering, teaching and learning, edutainment, gaming and digital entertainment.
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Broll
Phone: +49 2241 14-2715
wolfgang.broll@fit.fraunhofer.de