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What Is TelePresence?
Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance that they were present, or to have an effect, at a location other than their true location. Telepresence requires that the senses of the user, or users, are provided with such stimuli as to give the feeling of being in that other location. Additionally, the user(s) may be...
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-March 28, 2007

Videoconferencing And Avatars To Complement Lack Of Non-Verbal Clues In Online Meetings
Meetings that only use voice communication, such as a teleconference, present difficulties in determining who is speaking and listening. These problems increase as the number of meeting participants increases, an additional factor being how familiar people are with the voices of the other participants. Non-verbal cues, like body language and facial expression, which help us in a face-to-face meeting, are missing in a teleconference, so that it can be difficult...
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-February 7, 2005

Do People Really Pay Attention During Online Meetings?
More than 50% percent of the people surveyed in a recent study conducted by Russell Research found that meetings are worth neither the preparation nor the travel they demand. "A survey sponsored by Raindance Communications, Inc., a premier provider of integrated web and audio conferencing services, indicates that 90 percent of audio conferencers multitask by doing things other than paying full attention to meeting content." Photo credit: Strangnas Here is...
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-February 2, 2005

Virtual Teamwork Best Practices: Focus On People
Ralph Poole has been asking for some public comment to his good post about best practices to enable globally dispersed virtual teams. As he rightly points his focus to communication and interaction approaches that facilitate more effective online teamwork, I am contributing my humble views and much approval on many of Ralph's good points....
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-January 29, 2005

Educational Potential Of Video Games: Futurelab Finds Out
According to researchers at Futurelab, a British nonprofit investigating how technology can be used for innovative learning, video games have the potential to be highly effective tools for holding students' attention and teaching them about a variety of topics. Photo credit: Muriel Miralles...
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-January 22, 2005

Time-Extended Events Are Coming: X-Events
New media technologies - communication, collaboration, presentation, content delivery and distribution platforms - provide powerful ways to dramatically extend the reach, duration and interaction possibilities of both online and offline events. Photo credit: Ingrid Peek Up until now, we have tended to be constrained by time and space when putting on an event. So, events have been hosted at a particular location with a finite set of speakers and participants...
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-January 12, 2005

Tools To Communicate With The Network Edge
Dr. Eric Rasmussen is a U.S. Navy Medical Corps commander. In July, at the request of the Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Network and Information Integration, he led a civil military exercise on a lava bed in Hawaii. The objective: improve civil-military collaboration for post-conflict humanitarian operations support. In a letter summarizing the results of this summer's exercise, Rasmussen says: "Our experiences inside Iraq make it clear that...
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-October 14, 2004

Microsoft Response To Collaboration Spaces Need
This article provides a good overview of the product. The real selling feature of Sharepoint is tight integration with other Microsoft products. If you know Windows and Office, the learning curve is very low. In my experience, I've been disappointed with the product (sign in isn't direct and obvious, very little metadata support, very "boxy", no support for RSS, collaboration is basically just a threaded discussion, etc.) Given the opportunity,...
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-April 7, 2004