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SUMMARY:Videoconferencing … What’s different now? 
DTSTART:20120127T090000
DTSTAMP:20260501T081855Z
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Kori Inkpen\nAbstract: For more than 100 years engineers\,
  scientists\, and science fiction writers have been conceptualizing great 
 devices that combine audio and video and enable distance separated people 
 to communicate “face-to-face”. Despite these efforts\, videoconferenci
 ng technology is still somewhat a niche market. We are currently seeing in
 creased personal and commercial use of videoconferencing systems\, as well
  as a new wave of research in this area. Is “now” the right time?  Wha
 t are the current barriers to widespread adoption? Are the benefits of vid
 eo really worth it?  In this talk I will present some of the projects my t
 eam is working on in the space of telepresence\, and discuss some of the k
 ey challenges I feel are important to conquer in order for systems like th
 is to become an everyday reality. \n \nBio: Dr. Kori Inkpen is a Principal
  Researcher at Microsoft Research specializing in Computer Support for Col
 laboration. Prior to joining Microsoft\, Kori was a Computer Science Profe
 ssor at Dalhousie University and Simon Fraser University.  The goal of her
  research is to explore alternative computing environments to support natu
 ral\, seamless collaborative interactions. This includes face-to-face as w
 ell as distributed computing environments. Her past research has focused o
 n videoconferencing\, instant messaging\, tabletop displays\, large screen
  displays\, and ad-hoc collaboration with handheld and laptop computers. K
 ori also manages the Connect team at Microsoft Research\, which explores r
 esearch in the areas of Computer Supported Collaboration\, Social Computin
 g and Information Visualization.
LOCATION:BC 410 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20410
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