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June 28, 2005

A vision: Tovah, the always present expert

Just wanted to share a small vision about the future usage of e-meetings with you.

Tovah, the always present expert

Tovah is working on the nano-satellite project where she has a very specific expertise regarding the propulsion system, her expertise also means that she is working as an advisor on other projects and due to that she has to be always available. Tovah also has a great interested in what is happening in the various projects she is involved in. Tovah further feels that she wants to be very close to her work colleagues to get a feeling of presence.

Tovah works from several places, from her desk at her main office, loaned offices at the other projects, from home and while on the move (both on business trips but also when she is moving within the same city, between offices and to ad from her home).

Tovah is using the Marratech Ubiquitous Human Communication, UHC system to be in touch with his various groups. When Tovah is on the move, she will get information pushed to her mobile device. This information can be anything related to the projects she is working on, including presence information of her colleagues with live video sent from each participant.

The Marratech UHC includes general positioning and context awareness so when Tovah reaches her main office her desktop computer will automatically start displaying the same information she saw on her mobile device and start sending video to show her presence to her colleagues.

Anton needs to get in contact with Tovah to ask her a couple of questions and he simply sends her a private chat message asking if Tovah is available for a voice communication. First they exchange a few messages about what this is related to and Tovah agrees to the voice conversation and uses her desktop for the audio communication, but after a while she realizes that this is going to take some time and she has to drive her daughter to soccer practice. Tovah now transfers the conversation to her mobile device and continues the communication with Henrik actually not noticing any difference in the audio. In the car, Tovah's car mounted camera will start sending a video stream of her to Anton automatically when Tovah seats himself behind the wheel. The car mounted display will show the documents and drawings Anton showed Tovah earlier during the conversation and the audio will once again be moved to the audio system mounted in the car.

Using the Marratech Ubiquitous Human Communication, UHC for rich communication it allows Tovah to be instantaneously available independently of where she is located at the moment and it will make her mobile allowing her to work from anywhere she wants and by that give her a higher life quality.

What do think? Is this something you would feel was beneficial in the future?

Posted by peter at June 28, 2005 01:30 PM

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Where do I sign up ;-)


Posted by: Jon at June 28, 2005 08:54 PM

I think it sounds a great idea. There is a lot of buzz at the moment about 'presence' applications - mostly because Microsoft and IBM are putting marketing dollars behind it. It is the kind of buzz that starts getting clients to mention presence in 'wish lists'. This is mostly as Microsoft is starting to 'condition the mind' of its prey!

Presence has been talked about for a long time. However, there are many possibilities. I am in a Marratech meeting and need to speak to Tovah asap and she is on a call, or in a tunnel out of mobile phone reach.

Maybe I could send her a message that would alert her to join the Marratech meeting when she leaves the tunnel or finishes her call. Or maybe even automatically SIP her into a live Marratech meeting the minute her line becomes free (like a call back facility!). Maybe she could maybe participate with video using 3G or download a doc onto her smartphone (providing the bandwidth is available!).

It may even be possible to force through a messsage or call (i.e she can set priorities on her mobile phone that her boss or a certain important client can interupt certain phone calls).


From a business sense it makes a good case but from the perspective of a lifesytle there are times when you dont want to contactable!

Posted by: Peter Cunningham at June 29, 2005 04:38 PM