Presenter: Mark Chignell, CEO of Vocalage Inc.[1] and the Director of the University of Toronto Interactive Media Lab [2].
Synopsis: The functions of the telephone are largely driven by the requirements of nineteenth century technology. The telephone uses mono audio, as do modern speakerphones. Aside from echo cancellation and improved sound codecs, speaker phones have not been customized to facilitate voice conferencing. In this talk the use of spatialized audio to enhance voice conferencing in the Vocal Village system will be briefly introduced. We will then describe a ten-key pad voice conference controller that was developed with Oki Electric Corporation to meet the needs of Japanese teleworkers with physical disabilities when they collaborated on web design projects. That will be followed by a discussion of our work in developing a new generation VoIP speaker phone for business conference rooms. We will discuss prototypes built using Vaio and Nortech tablets and using a Breadboard computer. The talk will include a discussion of some of the challenges faced in developing this kind of hardware solution and the relative advantages of different platforms for VoIP speakerphone development. When: Wednesday October 28th, 2009 7:00pm - 8:30 pm Where: North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) Committee Room 1 5100 Yonge St., North York, ON (Google map link: http://xrl.us/hqbw) The entrance into the conference area is well back from the road, just in front of the fountains. Driving: The North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) is located on the West side of Yonge Street, just North of Yonge and Sheppard. There is plenty of (P)arking behind the building at 180 Beecroft Road, or underneath Empress Walk (entrance is off of Yonge and Emwood Ave.) TTC: The North York Civic Centre (in Mel Lastman Square) is located at the North York Centre subway stop, one stop North of Sheppard Station. Afterwards: we will make our way over to Milestones. [1] http://www.vocalage.com/ [2] http://anarch.ie.utoronto.ca/IML/model/home.php | Simon P. Ditner <[email protected]> / 416-479-0542 / http://taug.ca | | Network: | http://www.facebook.com/spditner | http://www.linkedin.com/in/spditner --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
