An der Universität Trier wurde eine neue, drastisch vereinfachte Zugangstechnik für Online-Vorlesungen namens tele-TASK (Teleteaching Anywhere Solution Kit) [TELE] [MS02] mit Erfolg erprobt. Von der Wohnung oder vom Büro aus kann dadurch jeder PC-Nutzer mit geeignetem Internetanschluss ob interessierter Laie, Fachspezialist oder eingeschriebener Student Lehrveranstaltungen komfortabel mitverfol...

In this paper we present why tele-monitoring is a promising application domain for Ubiquitous Computing. We discuss how the characteristics of ubiquitous information systems can be applied in the design of tele-monitoring applications and what special conditions and problems have to be regarded. Finally, we present the results of the implementation of such an application realized in a joint res...

Tele-centres offer a low cost opportunity for the many who cannot afford their own phone or Internet connection. This paper presents a field study of tele-centres in Ghana and analyses how they contribute to universal access. 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

This paper discusses the value of identifying the expanding interdisciplinary scholarly literature on the topic of (tele)presence, proposes a detailed procedure for doing so, and presents a list of 1,831 journal articles, books and other publications that constitute the (tele)presence literature as of May 2007.

Healthcare is important to people, especially to elderly people who lives independently. Since Internet services are getting reliable and stable, the tele-healthcare systems built on the Internet can be good supports to the traditional home healthcare centres and hospitals. The Internet-based tele-healthcare systems use Internet and specific modules can decrease the healthcare costs for patient...

Purpose: Veneto Region is currently achieving the integration of health and social services by integrating the tele-surveillance (detection of emergencies) already provided to ‘socially frail’ people with tele-monitoring, addressed to patients affected by chronic diseases. Theory: This strategy is guided by the idea that a better integration between the different levels of assistance is capable...

The aim of this paper is to describe patients' attitudes towards tele-rehabilitation in the Danish TELEKAT (for Telehomecare, Chronic Patients and the Integrated Healthcare System) project, in order to better understand patients' behavior when performing tele-rehabilitation activities in home surroundings. A total of 111 COPD patients were included in the study, and they were randomized into an...

PURPOSE To report low-income homebound older adults' experience of telehealth problem-solving therapy (tele-PST) and aging-service case managers' (CMs') experience/perception of client-level personal barriers to accessing psychotherapy in general and PST specifically. DESIGN AND METHODS The study sample consisted of 42 homebound older adults who participated in the feasibility and efficacy tr...

In tele-assistance a robot operates partly guided by a human and partly autonomously. Tele-assistance thus fills in the gap between full autonomy, and direct control by a human tele-operator. Instead of directly controlling the motor actions of a robot, in tele-assistance the human interacts with the robot using a deictic high level language. Pook and Ballard have implemented such a system usin...