ECEN Faculty Received a Research Project from
U.S. Department of Education
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 Recently,
OSU received a research grant ($350,000) from U.S. Department of
Education (DoE). The project is entitled Telecommunication & Virtual Lab
Research and Development. Principal Investigators include Drs. Jong-Moon
Chung and George Scheets (from ECEN, CEAT, OSU), and Ramesh Sharda, Mark
Weiser, and Nicholas Romano (from MIS, College of Business, OSU). This
project is focused on the enhancement of virtual presence technology, by
increasing a remote user's ability to interact with distant equipment
and users. The virtual presence tools propose to develop, called
Virtual-Laboratory (V Lab), seeks to improve same-time different-place
group interactions, bringing them more on par with that of same-time,
same place. The VLab will include: (1) The ability to seamlessly,
virtually walkthrough a virtual, or real but remote location; (2) The
ability to interact with hardware and remote users, in a manner not
unlike that of a same-time same-place user; (3) The ability to find a
remote instructor (or sales persons) location easily, interact with
same, and see an over-the-shoulder visual image from the remote person's
viewpoint, as well as conveniently be able to exchange real-time
audio/video/data; (4) Record useful student/attendee/visitor
information; and (5) The ability to manage and track complex multi-point
video, audio, and data streams. |
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