Here is a report and some pictures from the first day. My presentation was from 11:00 and I guess was well received with many interesting questions.

The session officially kicked-off with a breakfast keynote presentation by Brian O’Connell.

Brian, a president of IEEE from 2004-2005, gave a very interesting presentation called “Locating signals and noise in the study of social implications of e-networks”.

During lunch Dr Penny Jennet spoke about the use of technology in medical and health workplaces. Among the issues related to the project Dr Jennet is working on she gave some examples such as a physical activity monitor: a device that monitors physical activity of a person wearing the device on the ankle. To show people who are sitting most of their time at desks to encourage them move around more.

In the afternoon there were three presentation regarding Teleworkplace design. The first two presentations were given by Yamashita and Saji, students at Kyoto Institute of Technology looked at the design of space for virtual teams and ways to improve the quality and diversity of communication with the office.

Diana Limburg spoke about the role of design in the introduction of telework.

The last two sessions were by Reimi Suomi discussing the setting of goals of increasing knowledge work productivity.

and Yoko Kawai who looked at the City of Loma Linda’s IT infrastructure programme.