The Envisionment and Discovery Collaboratory (EDC) is a long-term
research platform exploring immersive socio-technical environments
in which stakeholders can collaboratively frame and solve problems
and discuss and make decisions in a variety of application domains
and different disciplines. The knowledge to understand, frame, and
solve these problems does not already exist, but is constructed and
evolves in ongoing interactions and collaborations among
stakeholders coming from different disciplines providing a unique
and challenging environment to study, foster, and support
human-centered informatics, design, creativity, and learning. At
the social level, the EDC is focused on the collaborative
construction of artifacts rather than the sharing of individually
constructed items. It brings individuals together in face-to-face
meetings, encouraging and supporting them to engage, individually
and collectively, in action and reflection. At the technological
level, the EDC integrates tabletop computing environments, tangible
objects, sketching support, geographic information systems,
visualization software, and an envisioned virtual implementation.
This book is based on 20 years of research and development
activities that brought together interdisciplinary teams of
researchers, educators, designers, and practitioners from different
backgrounds. The EDC originated with the merging of two research
paradigms from disparate disciplines to build on the strengths,
approaches, and perspectives of each. This book describes the
artifacts and scenarios that were developed, with the goal of
providing inspiration for human-centered informatics not focused on
technologies in search of a purpose but on the development of
systems supporting stakeholders to explore personally meaningful
problems. These developments have inspired numerous research and
teaching activities. The challenges, prototypical systems, and
lessons learned represent important milestones in the development
and evolution of the EDC that are relevant for future research
activities and practices in human-centered informatics.
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