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