OBJECTIVE To measure teamwork and safety climate in three intensive care units (ICUs) before and after remote monitoring by intensivists using telemedicine technology (tele-ICU). DESIGN Controlled pre tele-ICU and post tele-ICU cross-sectional survey. SETTING ICUs in two non-teaching community hospitals and one tertiary care teaching hospital. Subjects ICU physicians and nurses. INTERVENT...

This paper examines a number of key areas of current research in tele-operated robotics that could have a significant impact on future directions and applications. Although accurate prediction is notoriously difficult the paper will aim to ground its conclusions through reference to current research literature. Following a generic description of the key elements in tele-robotic systems, the pap...

This paper presents a new computer supported remote learning and gaming method using Tele-Face Mouse system. The Tele-Face Mouse system is being developed as a teleconference system. It converts simple desktop computers to a teleconference system. The main advantage of the Tele-Face Mouse system is that it enables people to share a computer screen as a working space, and to interact with it usi...

Tele-robotics is an area of robotics concerned with the control of robots from a distance, chiefly using wireless connections like Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, the Deep Space Network, ‘tethered’ connections, or the Internet. Most tele-robotic systems are teleoperated which means that it relies on the human operator’s capabilities. Many aspects like limited perception, cognitive workload, mental capacity, ...

The Tele-Medicine sub-services backed up by a novel, open-architecture Tele-Working platform, are evaluated. This multimedia platform, developed over the Hellenic Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), is based on user terminals (personal computers), networking apparatus, and a central database. The developed product equips the Hellenic PTT Organization (OTE) with a ready-to-be applied nov...

SUMMARY During the last decade we assisted to relevant progress in rehabilitation studies and in technological development. From the combination of these issues rises the tele-rehabilitation--a subfield of telemedicine consisting of a system to control rehabilitation "at distance"--as an actual possibility of application and a promising development in the future. The present paper offers a shor...

This work is part of a learning environment that has virtual laboratories are designed for distant practical (Tele-PW). In these environments, Tele-PW performed in two modes: individual and/or collaborative. this paper, we concentrating on the tele-collaborative model. The work, presented proposes an artificial agent called Synchronizer Coordinator Agent (SCA) to synchronize and coordinate acti...