My Licentiate degree (halfway between MSc. and Ph.D) work proposal, with the topic "How to meet the user requirements of room-based videoconferencing". The work has so far resulted in a technical report with the same title that can be found from my publications page.
As a sidetrack of the licentiate work, I developed a Prototype implementation and participated in the standardization of the RTP Payload Format for DV Format Video in the AVT WG of the IETF.
I've done evaluations of different tools for synchronous communication:
In 1997 I did a survey over Multimedia Server-related technology for the MERCI project.
I have also built a videoconference session recorder for the SSVLNet and a minimal streaming server for the Internet Multicast module of the Specialization Course (finger course) in Telesystems 1999 using experiences from the Multimedia Server survey.
I was supervising two Master's Thesis students on
Computer support for asynchronous communication in distance
learning.
More info on that can be found on the
SunTREC at KTH Home Page.
Another result from their work is a web-based groupware tool for asynchronous collaboration called Tobbe
I have done an evaluation of
Applix Anyware Java Office
by courtesy of Agenda.
The result is in a technical report with the title
Evaluation of a Java-based Office-package that can be found from my
publications page.
Once upon a time I was part of an effort to convert Sun's Montage, a groupware application for quick calls and informal chat between distributed working groups, to Java. At that time there was no real-time support in Java so the project didn't achieve it's goal. However, we had a lot of discussions that finally led George Drapeau to develop some Java Rolodex service compliant with VCard. No idea what happened to it later.
In parallell with the Montage porting, I worked on an idea of a combined information broker, call handling and translation system that I called SPOC (Single Point Of Contact).
I have done a lot of network-building and -repairing ranging from simple serial connections to machines without display devices through Ethernet wiring, ATM-switching, IP routing, IP multicast routing and a few other things up to analog video and audio.
Here's a little map for you who, like me, easily get lost in the administrative djungle.
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