ActivePlace, a Unified Collaboration Environment

As Workplaces are being equipped with communication-oriented software more and more people are faced with the need to handle with multiple communication contexts in environments with ever increasing multi-tasking nature. The increased complexity of managing communication in different contexts is becoming more demanding than ever before. This paper presents a unified collaborative system named ActivePlace, which enables context-awareness in communication and collaboration. In this paper we discuss the new design we applied compared to the traditional online room-based workplace systems, such as use of context-aware extended presence and the concept of activity awareness for places. The ActivePlace provides an infrastructure for communication and collaboration in a context-sensitive basis.