During Peters PhD the research focused of tools and methods for distributed engineering (high quality video conferencing, distributed CAE tools and distributed virtual reality). This focus has changed from technology view to a process and user centric view. The research now focusing on tools and methods for team based innovation in early design. Research issues include social processes in design, informal communication and creativity.The research today is focused on. Important topics are the usage of tiger teams (diverse groups focusing on solving a specific problem) and methods fostering radical innovation instead of continuous improvement. The research is inspired by the vision of true collaboration within global design teams, where diversity and competencies of the whole team can be utilized and where team members can think together and share information and opinions instead of merely dividing work. The team creates a critical mass and by exploring ideas in the creative atmosphere - ideas are born and developed together and the team derives the benefit from the competencies in the diverse group.Specialties: To achieve this goal one approach has been the development and evaluation of collaborative environments. Peter has been involved in the development of several state of the art environments for collaborative work (The Studio, iMeet and the VR lab in Innovatum). Peter is now the manager for the DEPICT-Lab in Luleå.