Archive for May, 2009

Océ is sponsoring a student competition for describing and visualising a vision of the future office environment for the year 2015.

Student teams (of at least 2 students) are invited to describe their vision of a future office environment, in a written document and a short video.
Selected teams will be nominated for prizes and will be invited to participate in the EUSAI 2004 programme.

At EUSAI 2004, a panel of experts will select the winning teams out of the nominated entries.
The criteria for the selection will be: Innovation, Originality, Clarity and Quality of the presentation in the video and written forms (see submission guidelines).
Wild, “out of the box” ideas are welcome. All rights to the submitted ideas automatically become property of Océ Technologies B.V.

Prizes:
1st prize: 2500 Euro
2nd prize: 1500 Euro
3rd prize: 1000 Euro
For more information, please visit the Oce Student Competition’s web site available at: http://competition.oce.com.
A [PDF] version of the call for participation is also available.

List of Five Nominees
After a hard time selecting the bests candidates for the award, we have chose 5 out of the 8 projects received. The nominees are:

* Smart Office Space – User System Interaction programme, IPO department, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Team members: Anke Eyck, Kelvin Geerlings, Dina Karimova, Bernt Meerbeek, Lu Wang
* Personal Emotional Tool – Dipartamento di Scienze della Comunicazione, Sienna, Italy
Team members: A. Agueci, A. Fedeli, S. Guastaldi, D. Spigolon, M. Valentini
* The Cube: One Office Many Faces – Industrial Design department, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Team members: Loes Smits, Liane Wester, Ivo Stuyfzand, Maarten Brugmans, Jussuf Kopalit, Ingmar Hendriks
* Interficium – Department of Social Psychology of IT and Communication, Warsaw School of Social Psychology, Poland
Team members: Marcin Bober, Piotr Haltof
* The Pervasive Office – User System Interaction programme, IPO department, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Team members: Alia Amin, Barbaros Metin, Jutta Schneider, Olga Kulyk