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AWE: an animated work environment for working with physical and digital tools and artifacts

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We discuss the design, development, and testing of animated work environment (AWE), a novel, programmable, AWE supporting everyday human activities at work, at home, or at school in an increasingly digital society. A physical example of the emerging genre of "architectural robotics," AWE features a programmable, reconfigurable “wall,” three horizontal, mobile work-surfaces, and embedded information technologies. AWE is the result of an iterative design process involving surveys, task analyses, virtual and physical prototyping, and usability testing accomplished by a transdisciplinary team of engineers, architects, sociologists, and human factors psychologists. Usability testing has demonstrated AWE’s potential to enhance working life: AWE adapts to variations in complex activities involving users working in one physical place with physical and digital tools and artifacts.

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The authors acknowledge support from the U.S. National Science Foundation under Grant Number IIS-0534423.

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  1. Department of Architecture, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA

    Henrique Houayek & Keith Evan Green

  2. Department of Psychology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA

    Leo Gugerty

  3. Department of ECE, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA

    Ian D. Walker

  4. Department of Sociology, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, 29634, USA

    James Witte

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Houayek, H., Green, K.E., Gugerty, L. et al. AWE: an animated work environment for working with physical and digital tools and artifacts. Pers Ubiquit Comput 18, 1227–1241 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-013-0731-6

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