Liston, Fischer and Kunz 1 Requirements and Benefits of Interactive Information Workspaces in Construction

This paper envisions a new type of construction information technology-construction information workspace (CIW)- that enables project teams to visually interact with project information to support the decision-making process. We introduce a set of visualization and interaction functional requirements for CIW that will provide teams with the ability to visually interact with relationships between project information. These requirements stem from three research efforts: observation of today's paper-based workspaces, observation of a 4D workspace on a construction project, and prototyping of an interactive information workspace. These observations show the potential opportunities and benefits for the use of CIW such as improving the utility of project information and improving decision-making. Introduction to Information Workspaces and Workspace Tasks Workspaces are physical or virtual spaces where people work, share and use information. The world-wide web and online project management environments are virtual workspaces that enable project teams to use and share information online