Responsive Workbench

The standard metaphor for human-computer interaction has been based on the daily experience of a white—collar office worker. Since 20 years more and more enhanced desktop -systems have been developed providing the user with tools as line and raster graphics, WIMP GUI’s and advanced multimedia extensions. With the advent of immersive virtual environments the user arrived in 3D space. Walkthrough experiences, manipulation of virtual objects, and meetings with synthesized collaborators have been proposed, the special human-computer interfaces for pilots and telepresence tasks became available to the ordinary user.