Office workers are Increasingly finding themselves surrounded by smart technology in the workplace. High-tech access control systems, personalized environmental controls, even circadian lighting systems that mimic the rhythms of the sun to support better health and wellbeing. However, the vast mojority of office workers spend their days sitting at dumb old workstations made of four legs and a plank of wood. It seems as though, in this new age of technology, it is about time we had smarter desks. A number of workplace technology researchers are now switching their focus to this pressing issue with the aim of dragging our old fashioned desks into the 21st century. One such researcher is Burcin Becerik-Gerber, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering. Becerik-Gerber and her graduate students have teamed up with global engineering firm Arup https://www.arup.com/ to create intelligent workstations that will keep pace with their increasingly […]