Posts Relating To: telepresence

Virtual World Research

Up until now, most of my blog posts have been fairly opin­ion­ated errr… reflec­tions on vari­ous things, events, etc. Don’t get me wrong, I love writ­ing these things — and I have every inten­tion on car­ry­ing on with them — but for a blog that was ori­gin­ally meant to be about research it’s kind of …

January 7, 2010 – 5:45 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Site Related | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Telepresence and Second Life Predictions for 2010

OK, I’ll be hon­est with you, I’m prob­ably not the best per­son to make pre­dic­tions. I say that because I’m not hugely up to speed with industry news. My interest in Second Life cur­rent events really only dates back to the last couple of months, whereas I stopped fol­low­ing tele­p­res­ence news back in the begin­ning …

January 3, 2010 – 11:46 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (3)

No Translations for Cisco Telepresence

It’s times like this when I real­ise that maybe I’m actu­ally get­ting some­where with my research. Last year Cisco announced that they were work­ing on an auto­mated trans­la­tion ser­vice for their Tele­p­res­ence video con­fer­en­cing product. The ser­vice could appar­ently tran­scribe a user’s speech, accur­ately trans­late it, and then ‘read’ the trans­la­tion to the user’s remote …

November 21, 2009 – 2:38 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Thoughts | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Welcome to my research blog

Hello and wel­come to my blog, post num­ber one — oblig­at­ory object­ives post com­plete with a vague over­view of who I am and what I’m doing.
So I’m Aaron, and I’m a UK research stu­dent study­ing for a PhD in the UK. My pro­ject has one main, and extremely broad, object­ive — how can people who aren’t …

November 15, 2009 – 9:14 pm | By Aaron | Posted in Site Related | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)