TWR conferences take place every two years.
Topics of our conferences include, but are not limited to:
- Physical work environment (e.g. real estate, architecture and design, building physics (HVCSE), bio-technology, etc.),
- Social work environment (e.g. human resource management, behavioral sciences, organizational science, business, health, environmental psychology, sociology, ethnography, etc.),
- Digital work environment (e.g. ICT, IoT, virtual and augmented reality, engineering, etc.), and
- Management of work environment (e.g. management, economics, facilities management, corporate real estate management, etc.).
Abstracts/short papers can focus on issues at an individual, organizational or urban scale.
The conferences provide delegates insight in both current topics and future interests. During 2-3 days of parallel sessions, research findings from many different perspectives are discussed with the audience of researchers and practitioners from around the world. Presenters in the regular parallel sessions (20-30 minutes/paper) have to submit a short paper (max 3500 words, excluding references). For those without a short paper (or with insufficient depth to pass our review procedure) we offer 5-minute presentations, based on abstract-only submissions. The short papers are reviewed by our scientific committee, the abstract-only submissions by the local organising team. All short papers are published in proceedings made available at the conference and open source online on this website.
Besides parallel sessions, the conferences also provide the opportunity to discuss further enhancement of the field in special sessions/workshops aimed at jointly identifying future roadmaps for related sub-themes. These sessions will provide the opportunity for participants to develop transdisciplinary, international research initiatives. Also, pre- and/or post-conference excursions are organised for participants to visit local innovative workplaces, and an attractive social program is available for further networking.