Telework and Telepresence have become hot topics in both
the data communications field and in sociology. Telepresence
generally means the access to costly equipment or services
from remote sites. This can include research equipment located
in our laboratories and providing use of it to researchers at
other institutions.
Typically the data communications needed for telepresence
includes multimedia data traffic ( a mix of traffic with
opposing service requirements). For this research a feasibility
study is to be carried out to come up with specifications for
the required communications infrastructure (site-specific) and
the communication services. This study is carried out in the
framework of available CS lab equipment. In addition, desired
ergonomics, such us friendly user-interfacesand suitable work
environments, are to be considered. No actual experiments and
no sociological impact studies are to be performed.
The first pilot project for establishing a telelab presence of
one of our research tools is our Protocol Testbed for the design
and evaluation of communication line protocols. A new GUI
operator interface is currently being developed, which will
ultimately be made available over the WWW.
Participating in the project are Dr. Bernd J. Kurz (professor),
with the assistance of Robert Lebeck, undergraduate student.
Project Status: Started: January 1997
Completed: April 1997
Robert Lebeck, Telepresence Laboratories in Computer Science, CS4983 Report, Faculty of Computer Science, University of New Brunswick, April 1997
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Last revised: 6 June 1997 by Bernd Kurz bjkurz@unb.ca