ABOUT ICE
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Interactive Collaborative Environments
The Interactive Collaborative Environments Laboratory (ICE) at SICS focuses on the development of future computational environments that will support and promote cooperative interaction. Inhabitants of these environments will require support independently of physical location as well as having interaction and communication with fellow inhabitants to occur both synchronously and asynchronously. Designing 
the next generation of control and interaction surfaces will bring together work in tangible and physical interfaces coupled with distributed virtual reality technology to explore how a number of heterogeneous devices and interfaces can be used in unison.
In summary the main research challenge is the exploration of how future information technology will weave an ubiquitous backdrop to our everyday activities, both at work and at home. In response, the entity formerly known as the Distributed Collaborative Environments group (DCE) has been restructured into the Interactive Collaborative Environments Laboratory (ICE).
We identify three major research issues of particular concern to us and provide a short description of each of the groups that have been set up within the lab in order to respond to the posed challenges.
