Virtual co-location: As if being there?

Summary form only given. More than 10 years ago, Olson and Olson analysed technology support for virtual co-location. They came to the conclusion that distance matters and that the analysed technology is not mature enough to enable virtual co-location. Olson and Olson stated that even future technology will struggle to enable virtual co-location, as providing awareness among co-workers and enabling co-reference as well as spatial referencing will remain a challenge. The keynote explores the concept of virtual co-location. It discuss several scenarios from current and upcoming projects for the application of virtual co-location. These scenarios include among others engineering and construction in the brownfield, remote support and information provision for emergency services, training of experiment procedures and the evaluation of human motor function.