Reading material: part of Chapter 11 (Winters), pp. 100-103.

Implications and Considerations for Room Systems

• Group or individual?
  • If group:
    • configuration of room
      • "flat facing" or "half-conference table" or "classroom"?
    • remote control of camera zoom/pan/tilt?
    • automated camera following of speaker?
    • multiple mics?
• Number and size of monitors
• Number of cameras
• Lighting (e.g., can see participants without significant shadows or strong background light)
• Background (e.g., not busy, neutral shade such as gray)

Implications and Considerations for Mobile/Wearable Technologies

• Key Advantages
  • Improved access to services and information
  • Potentially enabling technology (societal example: cell phones)
    • Convenient for most users
  • Potential for improved client assessment (e.g., more timely access, activity/participation monitoring)
• Key Challenges
  • More complex human-technology interface (harder for designers)
    • changing human-technology relationships
  • More responsibility placed on human operator
    • hand-held, potentially moving display screen and camera
    • more dependence on user abilities (e.g., vision, hearing, manual control)
    • more attentional resources
  • Less controlled environmental setting
    • background noise
    • background image
  • Potential for intrusion of privacy

Implications for Rehabilitation (open discussion)

• Delivery of clinical services?
• Timely access to information?
• Tele-support for self-care?

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