Continuously Connected Environment for Collaborative Telework

This paper describes our current study in the development of collaborative design environment which considers ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and architectural space. Our study group has been developing a computerized prototype environment for collaboration, which attempts to support synchronous design collaboration in a continuously connected project-room at distributing sites. The authors focus on communication in order to evaluate the collaboration environment. The objectives are as below. Objective 1 is that finding problems and its factors of the continuously connected project-rooms in the distributing sites. Objective 2 is that improving the problems of the continuously connected projectrooms in the distributing sites. In the conclusion, we have realized and extracted four major issues towards improving the distributing project-rooms environment in our future study, which is listed in the table with the objective 1. The authors improve the problems of the environment by using application and changing architectural space in the objective 2.