This book de-mystifies the technology behind video conferencing and provides single users and small enterprises with the information they need to deploy video conferencing efficiently and cost effectively.For many years, the promise of high quality, low cost video conferencing has been an attractive solution for businesses interested in cutting travel costs while maintaining the benefits of face-to-face contact. Unfortunately, most solutions never lived up to the promise, due primarily to lack of internet bandwidth and poorly developed protocols. That's no all changed. The capacity has been created, the hardware works, and businesses are more eager than ever to cut down on travel costs.* Budget conscious methods for deploying Video over IP in small to medium enterprises * Coverage of Cisco, Microsoft, Skype, AOL, Google, VidiTel and many other products* How to identify and resolve nagging quality of service issues such as transmission delays and out of synch video-to-voice feeds

The COVID-19 pandemic has reorganized existing methods of exchange, turning comparatively marginal technologies into the new normal. Multipoint videoconferencing in particular has become a favored means for web-based forms of remote communication and collaboration without physical copresence. Taking the recent mainstreaming of videoconferencing as its point of departure, this anthology examines the complex mediality of this new form of social interaction. Connecting theoretical reflection with material case studies, the contributors question practices, politics and aesthetics of videoconferencing and the specific meanings it acquires in different historical, cultural and social contexts.

Smart Videoconferencing is the first book to show people how to participate effectively in videoconferences, rather than just how to set them up. The authors show that just like traditional meetings, mastering a few tricks and simple skills can mean the difference between a successful videoconference and an unsuccessful one.

In light of the expensive nature of quantitative research, such as experiments, researchers must seek other methods of understanding the world around them. As such, new qualitative methods are gaining ground in the modern research community. Enhancing Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research with Technology explores the integration of new digital tools into the research process. Including current information on data visualization, research design, information capture, as well as social media analysis, this publication serves as an ideal reference source for academicians, scientists, information specialists, business managers, and upper-level students involved in interdisciplinary research.

Novel AI and Data Science Advancements for Sustainability in the Era of COVID-19 discusses how the role of recent technologies applied to health settings can help fight virus outbreaks. Moreover, it provides guidelines on how governments and institutions should prepare and quickly respond to drastic situations using technology to support their communities in order to maintain life and functional as efficiently as possible. The book discusses topics such as AI-driven histopathology analysis for COVID-19 diagnosis, bioinformatics for subtype rational drug design, deep learning-based treatment evaluation and outcome prediction, sensor informatics for monitoring infected patients, and machine learning for tracking and prediction models. In addition, the book presents AI solutions for hospital management during an epidemic or pandemic, along with real-world solutions and case studies of successful measures to support different types of communities. This is a valuable source for medical informaticians, bioinformaticians, clinicians and other healthcare workers and researchers who are interested in learning more on how recently developed technologies can help us fight and minimize the effects of global pandemics. - Discusses AI advancements in predictive and decision modeling and how to design mobile apps to track contagion spread - Presents the smart contract concept in blockchain and cryptography technology to guarantee security and privacy of people's data once their information has been used to fight the pandemic - Encompasses guidelines for emergency preparedness, planning, recovery and continuity management of communities to support people in emergencies like a virus outbreak

This book gathers the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Science and Technology (ICCST 2022), held in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on August 27–28, 2022. The respective contributions offer practitioners and researchers a range of new computational techniques and solutions, identify emerging issues, and outline future research directions, while also showing them how to apply the latest large-scale, high-performance computational methods.

The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly pushed organizations into rethinking ways and means to continue to operate their businesses, especially with the restrictions on safe distancing. The world over is adjusting to COVID-19, with social distancing orders having compelled people to find alternatives to face-to-face meetings. As a result, video conferencing solutions have never been more popular. In order to conduct business without disruption, professionals have now turned to video conferencing to stay connected with their team members and customers. With the need to social distancing and working remotely, video conferencing has provided a more personalized approach. It serves as the closest alternative to a face-to-face meeting by providing a forum for managers and leadership to stay in touch with their team members just as if they are face-to-face, by addressing queries, concerns and other issues on the spot. The video conferencing services have seen such a huge surge in popularity and usage recently as the deadly corona virus is pushing more people into remote work environments. People are also using it for everything, not just business, from family-time-to-gathers to lunchtime hangouts with friends and so forth. So love them or hate them, meetings are a part of almost every job, whether you're working remotely or working in an office. Since meetings are here to stay, despite the restrictions on safe distancing, effective communication will all the more be the key during this trying time and outside of it to keep businesses running smoothly. Proper communication plays a critical role in keeping global employees connected, as well as staying in contact with customers who reside in different locations. This is where the subject of the right etiquette required during video-conferencing will play a key role- enabling you and your team to stand out from the rest. Just as how there are norms and etiquette required for any face-to face meeting, video- conferencing too has a set of guidelines that if followed, will ensure the meeting is productive and effective. Good video conferencing etiquette is really just common courtesy and respect for the people in your meeting while creating an environment with the least amount of disruption. And as with all virtual communication tools, we need to ensure that meetings are professional, efficient and productive. The usual principles of polite behavior required with any meeting apply for video-conferencing too, but the key is to understand how the use (or misuse) of technology can effect these meetings. The ideal video conference should get as close as possible to the dynamics of a real face-to-face meeting from the participants’ point of view, and for that the role of everyone in the meeting (not just the chairperson or host) is to ensure that the system is not filtering out critical interactions, allowing discourtesy to sneak in. There’s just no substitute for good manners in all of our daily interactions, and good manners are appreciated more than ever in workplace meetings. This is especially true during online video conferences and meetings. Whether you a Head in a Corporate, a Professor or Lecturer in a College, or Teacher in a School, or an Interviewer recruiting candidates or just someone demonstrating and selling a product or service- with so much of a shift happening today to online platforms, I am confident that this little book: ‘The Professional Business Video-Conferencing Etiquette- Handbook & Guide’ will address most of the above stated issues and challenges, enabling you and your team to project the right positive impression, and build on your organization or institutions credibility and thus be able to have that competitive advantage over others.

Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is a field of study centrally concerned with meaning and the practices of meaning-making in the context of joint activity, and the ways in which these practices are mediated through designed artifacts. This volume includes abstracts of papers that were presented during interactive poster sessions at CSCL 2002. Documenting an extremely heterogeneous, productive phase of inquiry with broad social consequences, these proceedings reflect the current state of CSCL research--particularly in North America and Western Europe.