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  1-10 of 17 Reviews about "Computer Conferencing, Teleconferencing, And Videoconferencing (H.4.3...)": Date Reviewed
  Video over IP
Simpson W., Focal Press, Massachusetts, MA, 2006. 520 pp.  Type: Book (9780240805573)

Video has become one of the “killer” applications in modern networks. Fortunately, the prevalent networking protocol, Internet protocol (IP), can carry any kind of data encapsulated in its datagrams. This data agnos...

Mar 29 2006
  Acquiring and implementing videoconferencing technology to enhance the field work experience
Wolfer T., Carney M., Ward J. Journal of Technology in Human Services 19(4): 43-63, 2002.  Type: Article

This most interesting paper will have great appeal to a certain set of technology users. The authors describe an effort, at the University of South Carolina School of Social Work, to make use of videoconferencing technology to support ...

May 27 2003
  Telework
Scholtz J., Bellotti V., Schirra L., Erickson T., DeGroot J., Lund A. interactions 5(1): 44-54, 1998.  Type: Article

What is telework, and what are its advantages and disadvantages? The authors were members of a panel at a March 1997 conference on Computer-Human Interaction that sought to answer these questions. This article, derived from the confer...

Feb 1 1999
  The personal presence system
Boyer D., Lukacs M. Multimedia Systems 4(3): 122-130, 1996.  Type: Article

There are three main ideas in this paper. First, in a switched, high-fidelity video network, traffic for conference calls can be reduced by the use of centralized routing and composition. Second, to compensate for centralization, indiv...

Jul 1 1998
  Virtual teams
Lipnack J., Stamps J., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1997.  Type: Book (9780471165538)

Enterprises in the 21st century face numerous challenges. The globalization and intensification of competition, along with the extension of information and communication technologies, not only permit, but require, the design of new for...

Jul 1 1998
  Virtual communities companion
Shelton K., McNeeley T., Coriolis Group Books, Scottsdale, AZ, 1997.  Type: Book (9781576101568)

The shelves of computer bookstores are filled with volumes that initiate people into the technical details of how the Internet works, including grammars of HTML, technical surveys of agent technologies, and configuration guides to the ...

Mar 1 1998
  Videoconferencing on the Internet
Turletti T., Huitema C. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 4(3): 340-351, 1996.  Type: Article

In spite of its title, this paper is not about videoconferencing per se, but about the underlying protocols for sending video images. It discusses schemes that adapt the H.261 video compression algorithm so that it can be used over the...

Jul 1 1997
  City of bits
Mitchell W. (ed), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1995.  Type: Book (9780262133098)

One continuing challenge of the information revolution is that the important “stuff” of the technology is beyond the capabilities of human senses. We cannot see the bits in computers or the electrons that represent ...

Jun 1 1996
  The network nation
Hiltz S., Turoff M., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1993.  Type: Book (9780262581202)

Hiltz and Turoff have produced a new edition of their 1978 book by the same name [1]. This edition is essentially the same as the first edition with some notable additions. It includes a new preface and an important new final chapter a...

Aug 1 1995
  Electronic meeting systems
Nunamaker J., Dennis A., Valacich J., Vogel D., George J. Communications of the ACM 34(7): 40-61, 1991.  Type: Article

One of the newer areas of research in networking services is supporting group interactions and decision making. The University of Arizona is active in this area, and has developed a meeting environment called the Electronic Meeting Sys...

May 1 1992
 
 
 
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