Welcome State of the Science Participants!
Hi everyone!
Soon we will all be connected in our virtual seminar room. As you know, one of the limitations of holding a virtual conference is that you don’t get to interact with your colleagues between sessions as you would in a traditional face to face meeting. We are anticipating some great dialogue in our sessions, so we’ve created this blog to help continue discussion after the sessions have ended. Our presenters and expert panelists will be checking in here and responding periodically throughout the week. The categories related to the general topics of each day will be listed on the right as they occur. Please feel free to post your comments, interact with presenters, panelists and other participants. We look forward to meeting all of you!
Sincerely,
The RERC on Telerehabilitation SOS Team
We would like to thank all of the participants, panelist, and all the attendees who have helped us test the meeting room and give us helpful recommendations for improving the meeting experience.
SOS support Team
Technical problems which I was not able to resolve on two computers, the one my teenage daughter was using worked fine but I couldn’t access it.
I am running FIrefox 2.xxx on and Asus eee 900 with Adobe Flash Player 9.0. However I do not have Acrobat Connect Add-in installed accorsing to the troubleshooter- everything else is apparently working fine- when I click on the link to install Acrobat Connect Add-in it states that the resource is not available. The other is a real clunker with way too slow a processor.
So does anyone know if I can get a linux version of Acrobat Connect Add-in or do I have to uninstall my daughter from the computer?
Thanks- Nigel
Thanks for a great first session today!
The final discussion points today focused on technology in “low income” families and regions. Participants may be interested in the recently released WHO guidelines on wheelchair prescription in what it termed “less resourced” settings. These settings include rural and remote communities in first world countries.
The guidelines are here:
http://www.who.int/disabilities/publications/technology/wheelchairguidelines/en/index.html
Proceedings from a recent Symposium on the Guidelines are here:
http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkecentre/events/2008events/Wheelchair.asp
Emma.
Thank you for the link to the guidelines. I’m sure the wheelchair prescription team would like to take a look on that.
The less resourced settings definitely pose a big challenge in wheelchair prescription: how to optimally prescribe a wheelchair that both fits the client with the limited amount of available resources. I think telerehab can open a way for collaboration (discussions, second opinions, new ideas, etc) and resource sharing (information on available wheelchairs, etc) -not only locally, but globally.
Great session – panellist session excellent.
Still have my technical issues so I used the captioned text- significant errors in this but still mostly understandable.
Keep it up and thanks
Nigel
I had a couple comments on usability from this session.
First, I love the closed captioning, but I really wish that I had a scroll bar on it so that I could look back more than 2 lines if I’ve missed a word or got distracted by something on my end.
Likewise, it would be quite helpful if I could pause and restart (or even fast forward) the video. I know when I’ve used streaming video on other sites I can do this, with it just storing the extra on my computer until I can watch it. I know I could go to the archive and find it again, but realistically, I’m less likely to do that.
I’d also like to be able to resize the screen or re-arrange the panes. The question window is very, very small, and the list of files that can be downloaded doesn’t show enough of the long filenames to always know what the different files are. (This was especially true in the first session when there were a number of files with names that only differed (apparently) in the last few characters or in the extensions.)
I’d also like to see names more obviously displayed. When you have people on stage, it would be nice if their names were displayed, not just announced at the beginning. I’d also like to hear the names of the people who ask specific questions. I guess I’m looking for the “see and be seen” component that I find so valuable at brick and morter conferences.
Other than that, it is quite nice to be able to participate in this conference remotely. I probably wouldn’t have gotten to this one if I had to travel to it, but it is nice to have access to the information and learn something useful.
I am the father of Linda, who is well known to you. I was very impressed with this kind of presenting to the whole world without leaving ones’ home.
In general I could follow the presentations well, though there were some problems with the audio-connection. Sometimes there was e real terrible echo, but only now and then. Perhaps the weatherconditions play a role?
I want to congratulate the whole team, especially the workers behind the scene in giving me this opportunity of participating. Thank you and till next time.
Greetings from Hendrik A.Ph. van Roosmalen in Voorburg Holland