Hyper-Media on the Internet as a Tool for Approaching
Global Problems: A Tele-Conferencing Experiment
Gottfried Mayer-Kress, Center for Complex Systems Research,
Beckman Institute and Department of Physics, University Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 405 N. Mathews, Urbana, Il 61801, gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu, http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu/People/gmk/gmk-b.html
William Bender, World
Hunger Program, Box 1831, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912,
William_Bender@brown.edu
John Bazik, Department of Computer Science,
Box 1910, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912,
jsb@cs.brown.edu,http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/jsb/home.html
Abstract:
In this report we describe an experimental virtual participation in a
panel discussion of the Seventh Annual Hunger Research and Exchange via
Internet and telephone. The aim was to demonstrate an efficient and
cost-effective way of virtual conference participation, especially for
researchers from third world countries. We used state of the art hyper-media
documents (using WWW/Mosaic) that were transferred to workstations at the
conference site, prior to the presentation. During the oral presentation
via telephone, visual aids were presented by a local operator who provided
realtime feed-back to the presenter via the Unix talk program.
gmk@ccsr.uiuc.edu
Tue Sep 6 00:58:21 CDT 1994