[IEE EC3 News] IET Lecture reminder - 24 January - Improving collaboration for split-site teams

[Bill Pechey]

Dear Colleague,

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I have appended the details of our next lecture and hope to see you there.

Details of our other lectures may be found at - 
http://www.iee.org/OnComms/Branches/UK/England/SEastE/EC3/

I have attached a PDF file containing a poster about the lecture which
you may find useful.

Best wishes,

Bill Pechey
IET Thames Valley Specialised Section

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Thames Valley Specialised Section - Electronics, Control, Computing &
Communications

Improving collaboration for split-site teams

Tim Masterton, Doug Watson  

Thales Research & Technology UK Ltd 

Thursday, 24 January 2008 at 19:30

Palmer Building, The University of Reading 

Light refreshments available from 19:00-19:30 

Thales Research and Technology (UK) has developed a Virtual
Collaboration System to enable split-site teams to hold multi-way
project meetings. It provides sufficient quality to replace a
significant proportion of the usual face-to-face meetings required  by
engineering development teams, using standard broadband  connections
to the internet. As a result, the amount of travelling is reduced and
team members can meet as often as required.   This talk will describe
the work being undertaken at Thales, the  University of Surrey and
some evaluation sites to realise the goal  of a simple to use,
combined audio, video and data collaboration  system to replace some
of the Thales group travel requirements.  It will discuss the use of
existing technologies and standards, the  human factors and marketing
issues with gaining acceptance for  this way of working and plans for
using new technologies from a  variety of partners to enrich the
overall user experience.
 
If you want to know more, come along. All are welcome and no ticket is
required. Simply turn up on the night. For more details please contact
Dr Richard Mitchell at rjmitchell at theiet.org, or 0118 378 6790

Directions: Enter the University at the main entrance from the A327
Shinfield Road. Follow the road until until it bends right, when you
turn left and almost  immediately right. Go straight on when the road
goes to the left and park near the  Palmer Building. See also
http://www.reading.ac.uk/maps/whiteknights-struct.htm
 
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