SOOW 2016 - Workshop on SMART OFFICES AND OTHER WORKPLACES

Ambient intelligence approaches and technologies are more and more matured to be able of creating a smart environment that is intelligently helpful to users surrounded by such an environment. Besides a number of well known applications of this concept in various areas, like smart home environment, or smart support to elderly or handicapped people, we may consider it also as being very suitable for intelligent workplaces development. An intelligent workplace can be, among its other features, also helpful in managing knowledge which can be usefully needed by the users working in the workplace.
A smart workplace should, among its other features:
ensure broad but focused (and personalized) access to relevant information and knowledge resources, supporting thus both learning needs of the manager as well as creation of his/her decisions;
offer as much relief from stress as possible by avoiding all the usual stressful situations (or more precisely their potential sources);
ensure broad and up to date technical support for all technically based activities in the workplace.