[pt] As facilidades oferecidas pelas tecnologias de informação e comunicação (TICs) e o acesso ao computador pessoal — laptops, tablets e smartphones — incrementaram o trabalho remoto. Pelo uso das tecnologias móveis, o trabalho de escritório vem sendo feito em qualquer lugar e a qualquer hora. Levanta-se, então, a questão: como os trabalhadores estão vivenciando essas interações, inclusive em relação à diversidade de locais para a realização do trabalho? O objetivo desta pesquisa foi mapear as transformações do escritório, ocasionadas pelas rotinas de uso das TICs, iniciadas com a inserção da Internet até os dias de hoje. Trabalhou-se com a hipótese de que a Internet e as facilidades oferecidas pelas TICs vêm contribuindo para que esse tipo de trabalho migre do ambiente de escritório convencional para outros locais alternativos, e que essa migração vem influenciando a relação entre vida pessoal e trabalho. Para a coleta de dados junto aos trabalhadores em relação à mobilidade das atividades laborais, foram realizadas entrevistas e discussões em grupos de foco. Os resultados das técnicas aplicadas apontaram tanto para benefícios com o uso dos dispositivos móveis na realização das atividades de trabalho como também para focos de desconforto tanto no âmbito profissional quanto no pessoal associados a essa prática. Esta pesquisa propõe contribuir para o campo do design na definição de diretrizes de projetos de espaços e design de interiores que traduzam as crescentes demandas da sociedade em relação ao trabalho móvel. / [en] Convenience offered by information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the access to the personal computer — laptops, tablets and smartphones — have stimulated teleworking. Through the use of mobile technologies, office work is being done anywhere and anytime. The question then arises: How office workers are dealing with these interactions and diversity of places for carrying out their work? The objective of this research was to map the office transformations, caused by the ICTs usage routines, initiated with the insertion of the Internet, until the present day. We have worked with the hypothesis that the Internet and the facilities offered by ICTs have contributed to the fact that office work migrates from the conventional office environment to other alternative locations, and that this migration has influenced the relationship between personal and work life. To collect the office workers perceptions regarding the mobility of work activities, interviews and discussions were held in focus groups. The results of the applied techniques pointed to both the benefits, with the use of the mobile devices in the accomplishment of the work activities, as well as to points of worker s discomfort associated with this practice, in the professional and personal scope. This research proposes to contribute to the field of design, in the definition of design guidelines for spaces and interior design that reflect the increasing demands of society in relation to mobile work.

Global mobility, wireless technology and networked society are transforming the airport territory. These changes (hard factors) have been analysed in airport planning and transportation studies (Koll-Schretzenmayr 2003; Banister 2003; Schaafsma 2003; Knippenberger &Wall 2010; Salewski & Michaelli 2011; Convenz & Thierstein ed. 2014 et al) and architecture and design (Edwards 1998; Blow 2005; Cuadra 2002; Uffelen 2012; Gensler 2013 et al). But design strategies focusing on the passenger experience (soft factors) have not yet been thoroughly assimilated by architecture and design. On the theoretical level this dissertation spans the analysis of current methodologies in social studies (e.g. Castells 1996; Gottdiener 2000; Cresswell 2006; Urry, 2007; Elliott & Urry 2010; Adey 2010 et al) and their relation to architectural and urban studies concepts for the airport. The latter includes the “Airport as City” (Güller & Güller 2000), “Aviopolis – A Book about Airports” (Fuller & Harley 2005) and “Aerotropolis” (Kassarda 2010). This dissertation also explores IT and aviation industry interests at the interface between technology and air travellers. In this light aviation industry research and solutions (Amadeus 2011, SITA 2013) are important to consider, as well the philosophy behind who travels and for what purpose (Sloterdijk 1998; Koolhaas 1998; Gottdiener 2000; Urry 2007; Birtchnell & Caletrio 2014 et al). Here, the author’s previous field research at Frankfurt International Airport is relevant. We live more mobile lifestyles, we work in hybrid spaces (Suoza 2006; Duffy 2010 et al), and we consequently need to share information and collaborate differently. Using constant travellers as a case study, the impact of physical and informational mobility on perceptions of and behavioural patterns in the airport can lead to a deeper understanding of mobile work and the air travel experience. New design strategies can be developed from research about constant travellers, and the results may improve their work and air travel experience. The author’s combination of design approaches from architecture and social science (sociology and psychology) methodologies can better address the real needs of constant travellers in hybrid workspaces. It is hoped that this dissertation will inspire airport architects and designers, interaction designers and the aviation industry to pay more attention to users’ needs in their design processes.