Center of Telework

From 1998 – an office for teleworkers to work together – once or twice a week.

Today only existing at www.fjernarbeid.net on Internet

Many consultans are teleworking from their homes when not travelling to Oslo for meetings.

Mjøsa regionThe lake is120 km long

140.000 – 160.000 inhabitans

1 – 2 hours by train to Oslo

Oslo

• Website since 1998 for teleworkers• Telework center• Virtual eworking center on Internet

• Consultant in information• Working at distance• Using train in periods for work in

Oslo

A user oriented study to evaluate low end video

conferencing solutions

Willy BakkeliCenter of Telework

...HOWEVER...

I did not succeed to finish the framework (and the paper) to this workshop

......

SO INSTEAD

I will show

you a few examples

Webconferencing

• We have been trying/using different web communications and conferencing programs.

• Low end solutions – not high end like Tandberg

• Do they really satisfy needs of a teleworker?

SkypeMessenger.. The easy way to start

Hello – I cant hear you... I have to fix some cables...

OK – now it works

Many functiones

iChat Mac

Link: http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/ichat.html http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat/

9 at the same time

Conferencing systems

Quite a lot of them

VoiceCafe, iConference etc

The concepts where almost the same.

Start ticket was cheap

To put on modules could be expensive – in the long run.

Example picture from VoiceCafe

One to many

Discussion

• The technical solutions and standards make a rigid framework of the products functionality.

• Behind different interface furnishes, we often find the same standards and techniques.

• High pricing does not always means highest quality for low end video conferencing users.

The goal is to make a framework based on own experiences, user reports of practical use and testing of many video conferencing solutions in different communication situations.

How to evaluate low endwebcommunication and –conferensing

systems/programs

• Installation simplicity/complexity • User interface • Functionality • Virtual environment• Bandwidth capabilities (– more up)• Organizational environments • Pricing

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