Videoconferencing … What’s different now?
Event details
| Date | 27.01.2012 |
| Hour | 09:00 |
| Speaker | Dr. Kori Inkpen |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract: 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, videoconferencing technology is still somewhat a niche market. We are currently seeing increased personal and commercial use of videoconferencing systems, as well as a new wave of research in this area. Is “now” the right time? What are the current barriers to widespread adoption? Are the benefits of video really worth it? In this talk I will present some of the projects my team is working on in the space of telepresence, and discuss some of the key challenges I feel are important to conquer in order for systems like this to become an everyday reality.
Bio: Dr. Kori Inkpen is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research specializing in Computer Support for Collaboration. Prior to joining Microsoft, Kori was a Computer Science Professor at Dalhousie University and Simon Fraser University. The goal of her research is to explore alternative computing environments to support natural, seamless collaborative interactions. This includes face-to-face as well as distributed computing environments. Her past research has focused on videoconferencing, instant messaging, tabletop displays, large screen displays, and ad-hoc collaboration with handheld and laptop computers. Kori also manages the Connect team at Microsoft Research, which explores research in the areas of Computer Supported Collaboration, Social Computing and Information Visualization.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Florence Colomb