This paper describes a systemic approach to co-design of collaborative museums, using ethnography, co-creation workshops and fast prototyping, amongst other Social Science and Human Centered Design methods. Focused on the creation of immersive and collaborative museum experiences, it provides a rationale for involving carefully selected multidisciplinary teams and users in the entire design cycle, and presents a process that supports this task, from research to development, pointing its value and limitations. In order to bring the discussion into context and exemplify the use of a group of methods that can support collaborative design, it introduces the case of a Brazilian Planetarium and Science Museum.

This paper presents a human-centered vision of unmanned but crewed platforms, combining an onshore collaborative hybrid environment and an intelligent offshore oilfield. Computer science plays a major role in this vision since digital environments are paramount for the job. We discuss the importance of research in the fields of computer graphics, virtual reality and computer supported cooperative work in this context and present the basic technologies needed to accomplish the task. We instantiate our vision appointing the results of some initial experiments using virtual reality in submarine installation operations.

This poster presents the ongoing prototyping and development of interactive environments that seek to support physical and virtual exploration, collaboration and co-construction, called ThinkeringSpaces. Starting with the description of the system, it is focused on the progression of iterations, based on research findings, giving a macro view of the design process and some details of the prototyping methods applied.