Experiences from multimedia user trials: user aspects, technical problems, and future concepts

Author

Humer-Hager, T. ; Cronjaeger, S.

Author_Institution

Public Commun. Networks, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany

fYear

1994

fDate

16-19 May 1994

Firstpage

37104

Lastpage

38930

Abstract

Main experiences from the multimedia user trials are presented. Joint projects with users, operators, and manufacturers of information processing and telecommunication equipment are necessary to understand user requirements and to translate them in corresponding technical requirements for workstations, networks, and interconnection devices. Short term solutions for project prototypes suffer mainly from high costs for experimental equipment and from compatibility problems between equipment of different manufacturers. Due to expensive tariffs for public broadband networks most multimedia applications run in a local environment. ATM components and networks will be able to efficiently support all aspects of multimedia communications

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; human factors; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; ATM components; compatibility problems; experimental equipment; future concepts; information processing; interconnection devices; joint projects; local environment; multimedia applications; multimedia communications; multimedia user trials; project prototypes; public broadband networks; tariffs; technical problems; technical requirements; telecommunication equipment; user aspects; user requirements; Asynchronous transfer mode; Banking; Communication networks; Multimedia systems; Postal services; Telecommunication traffic; Testing; Video sharing; Videoconference; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Communications, 1994. MULTIMEDIA '94., 5th IEEE COMSOC International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Kyoto

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWMC.1994.601236

Filename

601236