Workshop on Workspaces in the Information Age: Evolving Communications Infrastructures and Their Impact on the Workspace of the Future

本次研讨会最重要的成果将是在通信和建筑工程技术的交叉点开始一个全新的跨学科研究议程的制定。 研讨会及其报告将确定这两个学科交叉点的近期，中期和长期研究机会。 此外，这个应用程序竞技场虽然在技术选择、规模和应用程序易于部署的位置方面有些特殊，但对于更一般的信息基础设施概念和技术来说，它产生了一个问题丰富的测试平台。 理想情况下，这一领域的有效研究将为未来的建筑物产生一套新的设计原则和要求，从而改变建筑物的设计和建造方式，从最初的概念开始，就包括未来工人的沟通和新兴工作需求。

The most critical outcome from this workshop will be the start of a wholly new formulation of an interdisciplinary agenda for research at the intersection of communications and building engineering technologies. The workshop and its report will identify near, medium, and long term research opportunities at the intersection of these two disciplines. Furthermore, this applications arena, though somewhat specific in its choice of technologies, scale, and where applications are apt to be deployed, yields a problem rich testbed for more general information infrastructure concepts and technologies. Ideally, effective research in this area would generate a new set of design principles and requirements for future buildings, thus change in the practice of how buildings are designed and constructed to include from their initial conception the communication and emerging work needs of future workers.