Telecooperation needs distributed and mobile computer architectures, that enable efficient transfer of information in a highly heterogenous environment. It also needs semantically enhanced knowledge-transfer, concurrent access to various applications and services as well as a safe and trustworthy "domain-surroundings"(?).
These various requirements necessitate an interdisciplinary view at the domain including impressions and information from a spectrum of fields like grid-, internet- and mobile computing, sensor - and wireless networks, mobile communication, mobile multimedia and agent-based computers.