Patent ID: 7747957

Claim:
A work space control apparatus for controlling activities conducted by objects in a work space as history, the apparatus comprising: a detection device that detects an activity event conducted by each object in the work space including a single non-simulated real space; an activity event control device that saves the activity event detected while relating the activity event detected to time for each object during which each object conducts the detected activity event and a non-simulated real place for each object where each object conducts the detected activity event; and a display device that displays the saved activity event by displaying a symbol representing each object conducting the saved activity event; wherein the objects in the work space include a person in at least the single non-simulated real space, the detection device at least detects an activity that is conducted by two or more objects in the single non-simulated real space, and the display device displays the symbols in accordance with a relation table representing an intensity of a relation between any pair of objects so that a distance, on the display device, between any pair of symbols displayed that represent a respective pair of objects conducting their respective saved activity event corresponds to a degree of relation between the pair of objects.