Multimedia Conferencing

ABSTRACT

In this seminar, we use the term “multimedia conferencing” instead of videoconferencing because the systems discussed in this section integrate multiple media formats into one system, not just video. The multimedia conferencing market is believed to be one of the key markets within the multimedia market segment. Recent developments in multimedia systems and networking technology show that using desktop multimedia conferencing for group decision-making on WANs such as the Internet is feasible. Researchers have often discussed the failure of video to support interpersonal communication.

Multimedia Conferencing is one of the main building blocks of collaborative multimedia computing today. It has been repeatedly hailed as on the brink of ubiquity and as a panacea for communications in distributed teams. Another promising area in multimedia conferencing research deals with so called “gazeawareness” support. This research deals with the question of how to provide eye contact between conferencing participants. From a social perspective people who use frequent eye contact are perceived as more attentive, friendly, cooperative, confident, mature, and sincere than those who avoid it. The loss of gaze-awareness is one important contributing factor to the failure of multimedia conferencing as a mass tool. Today, systems supporting gaze-awareness are still in their infancy and mostly first research prototypes.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

DEDICATION

CHAPTER ONE

1.1INTRODUCTION

1.2STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

1.3PURPOSE OF STUDY

1.4IMPORTANCE OF STUDY

1.5DEFINITION OF TERMS

1.6ASSUMPTION OF STUDY

CHAPTER TWO

2.0 LITERETURE REVIEW

2.1 MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING

2.2 CATEGORIZATION OF MULTIMEDIA

2.3 AUDIO CONFERENCE

2.4 VIDEO CONFERENCE

2.5 USER PERCEPTION OF QUALITY

2.6 MAJOR CHARACTERISTICS OF MULTIMEDIA

CHAPTER THREE

3.0 IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OF MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING

3.1 USAGE

3.1.1 CREATIVE INDUSTRIES

3.1.2 COMMERCIAL

3.1.3 ENTERTAINMENT AND FINE ARTS

3.1.4 EDUCATION

CHAPTER FOUR

4.0 KEY FEATURES OF MULTIMEDIA CONFERENCING

CHAPTER FIVE: CONCLUSION

5.1LIMITATION OF STUDY

5.2SUGGESTION FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

5.3 REFERENCES