Steelcase Inc.

Mark A Baloga

Carl V Forslund, Iii

Paul Noll

Francis Gerard Graziano

Paul B Siebert

Terry D West

Nicolas De Benoist

Joel D Stanfield

Michael E Tingley

Gregg Robert Draudt

Joseph R Branc

William L Miller

Mitchell Niewiadomski

David J Luzenske

Brian B Chambers

Steven W Eriksson

Thomas G Feldpausch

Marvin LaLone

Robert S Grooters

Terry West

Frank G Graziano

Karl Jahn Mead

Jonathan Jay King

George V Weller

Scott H Russell

Kevin S Nason

Philippe Fussler

Terence D West

Edmond Trimborn

Michell Niewiadomski

Nicolas Henri Louis De Benoist De Gentissart

Marvin La Lone

David P Lathrop

A system for use with at least one affordance in space, the affordance including at least one controllable operating characteristic, the system for controlling the operating characteristic and comprising a gadget including a housing, an output device, at least a first sensor for sensing the gadget in space and generating sensed information, a processor programmed to perform the steps of receiving sensed information from the at least a first sensor, using the sensed information to determine the location and orientation of the gadget in space, using the location and orientation of the gadget in space to identify at least one target object in a targeted juxtaposition with respect to the gadget and controlling the output device to indicate that at least one target object has been targeted.

Affordance control system and method

A system and method for creating a virtual world conferencing experience wherein a first set of real world emissive surfaces and content thereon is replicated on virtual world emissive surfaces where the virtual world emissive surfaces are juxtaposed in a virtual world instance at locations and in orientations that replicate the juxtapositions in the real world arrangement and where the virtual world instance is presented on a second set of real world emissive surfaces at a virtual world workstation where the second set of emissive surfaces are arranged differently than the first set of real world surfaces.

Virtual world method and system for affecting mind state

A conferencing arrangement for sharing information within a conference space, the arrangement comprising a common presentation surface including a presentation surface area, a common presentation surface driver, a system processor linked to the driver and receiving and presenting the information content via the common presentation surface and a portable user interface device including a device display screen and a device processor, the device processor programmed to provide an interface via the device display screen useable to view content and to enter a command to replicate content presented on the device display on the common presentation surface, the device processor capable of identifying a direction of a swiping action on the interface as a command to replicate the content, wherein, upon identifying that the direction of a swiping action on the interface is in the direction of the common presentation surface, the arrangement creates a sharing space on the presentation surface area and replicates the content from the device display within the sharing space.

Emissive surfaces and workspaces method and apparatus

An apparatus for sharing information in a space comprising a first two dimensional outer emissive surface, a first two dimensional inner emissive surface, a support structure resting on and extending upward from the support floor, the support structure supporting the first outer emissive surface with a first outer surface bottom edge at a work surface height, a first outer surface top edge at a ridge height above the work surface height and supporting the first inner emissive surface with a first inner surface bottom edge at a valley height below the work surface height, a first inner surface top edge at a height above the work surface height, the first inner emissive surface spaced behind the first outer emissive surface by at least twelve inches to form a space between the first outer emissive surface and the first inner emissive surfaces.

Emissive shapes and control systems

An emissive surface assembly includes an emissive surface configuration having a substantially contiguous emissive surface on which visual content may be presented. The emissive surface configuration has emissive surface sections including at least a first substantially flat emissive surface section, at least first and second curved emissive surface sections that are curved about first and second non-parallel axis, the first curved section positioned adjacent a first edge of the first substantially flat emissive surface section, the second curved section adjacent a second edge of the first substantially flat emissive surface section, each of the curved and flat surface sections forming a portion of the substantially contiguous emissive surface, and a driver for presenting content on the substantially contiguous emissive surface.

Curved display and curved display support

A system comprising a database storing schedule information associated with different meeting spaces, at least a first threshold display located proximate at least a first meeting space, an employee tracking system, a processor programmed to perform the steps of receiving employee tracking information including locations and identities, determining the relative juxtapositions of employees with respect to the first threshold display, identifying content to be presented on the first threshold display based on identity of a first employee, a distance between the first employee and the display and the schedule information.

Threshold configuration and system for space

A system for use with different space types, each space type including emissive surfaces, each emissive surface controllable to present content within the space, the system comprising a database that includes a separate template for each space type, each template indicating surfaces associated with the space type, relative juxtapositions of the surfaces in the space and content types to be presented in each surface, a processor programmed to allow a user to select a space type, identify an associated space type template, identifying content types for each surface and storing the received content in a session specification for subsequent access.

Template based content preparation system for use with a plurality of space types

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East Grand Rapids, MI, United States of America

Mark A Baloga