Video conferencing is part of a $5 Billion dollar real-time collaboration market that includes audio, video and web conferencing products and services.
The great challenge for Video conferencing vendors is to supply users with a meeting experience that equals or surpasses “in-person” meetings. It is assumed that when meeting experience will be good enough, or even better, the technology could potentially minimize the need for “physical” meetings (at least for business purposes). Such reduction would mean less travel, less cost (to people, organizations, and the planet), better efficiency and better communication.
This challenge focuses on developing new technologies and ideas to surpass the “in-person” meeting experience. In the process a set of subjective and objective measures to evaluate “meeting” experience will be developed. With these measures, alternative solutions could be compared to each other and to in-person meetings, and optimized accordingly.
Dataset
Not required.
Metrics/Evaluation
As noted above, we are hoping for new metrics, objective and subjective, to be developed that capture the meeting experience. It is desired to have a high correlation between the objective and subjective metrics, and that metrics are robust and reliable. Those metrics could be used to compare existing video conferencing solutions, in-person meetings and new technologies suggested.
About Radvision
Radvision (Nasdaq: RVSN) is the industry’s leading provider of products and technologies for unified visual communications over IP, 3G and emerging IMS/Next Generation networks - enabling high definition video-conferencing, converged video telephony services, and scalable desktop–based visual communications.
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on Feb 2nd, 2009 at 6:31 am
[...] Video Conferencing To Surpass “In-Person” Meeting Experience The great challenge for Video conferencing vendors is to supply users with a meeting experience [...]
on Feb 2nd, 2009 at 8:27 am
[...] challenge is to develop such new technologies and ideas, and in the process to come up with a set of measures to evaluate the “experience”, so [...]
on Feb 3rd, 2009 at 12:52 am
video conferencing is a big system, consisting of many components, such as video caputre, video processing/compression, video transmission, receiver, decoding, display, …
Which component do you want to address to improve meeting experiences? Or do you want to address all the components?
on Feb 4th, 2009 at 5:16 am
Yungjun - you can address some of the components or all. I guess the main idea is the solution that the user will eventually enjoy, regardless of the technology behind it (as users rarely understand what a codec or video capture is…).
I guess covering all apsects would be hard and time consuming, so improving one or more components seems like a good way to go.
on Feb 11th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
[...] Video Conferencing To Surpass “In-Person” Meeting Experience The great challenge for Video conferencing vendors is to supply users with a meeting experience [...]
on Feb 24th, 2009 at 5:19 am
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