RUFAE Members

Laboratory of Design for Cognition

AMBIENT Smart Environments of the Future

CMU Robert L. Preger Intelligent Workspaces

UCSD Distributed Cognition and HCI Laboratory

Stanford Interactive Workspaces

FUSE Group at KTH Stockholm

Aachen Media Computing Group

Laboratory of Professional Activity Support

IBM User Sciences and Experiences Research Lab

FX Palo Alto Laboratory

RUFAE: An Augmented Environments Research Network (Wiki)

I was one of the founders of RUFAE. RUFAE is an international network of research institutions designing and studying interactive spaces. RUFAE's industrial and academic research labs, from France, Germany, Sweden, Russia, and the U.S., cover architecture, cognitive science, computer science, and psychology. The collaboration currently manifests itself in three main aspects:

• Spaces: Each member lab is creating and using a prototypical augmented space.

• Ideas: In monthly phone/video/application sharing conferences betwen our augmented spaces, we present our research, discuss common projects, and share technical expertise. This helps to improve our spaces, their interconnectedness and compatibility, and to establish good practice through real use.

• People: We have begun to exchange students and researchers between member labs, to transfer technology, and to work on common research projects.