The reality of the business environment today, is that many companies and organisations have meeting rooms, conference rooms, boardrooms which are globally connected. While these are tremendously powerful tools to have, there are some problems that can potentially occur in these circumstances due to poor or just outdated design. These problems often undermine the quality…
Video conferencing design is reasonably simple to get right, when you have a controlled environment in a specialised Video Conferencing room. But in a more open environment most organisations are faced with a new set of challenges. Highly variable lighting and unpredictable audio “noise” are the primary problems in these environments, and it takes some…
Activity-based workplaces are getting some attention from designers of corporate work spaces and from organisations themselves. These environments get employees out of their assigned cubicles and gives them a variety of spaces to use based on what they need to do and who they need to connect with throughout the day.
This is the second part…
Creating collaborative spaces for different grade levels is important, and schools are beginning to design classrooms that will accommodate a wide variety of learning activities lectures, cooperative learning, group activities, learning by teaching or presentations or lectures by students, multimedia technology in classroom, etc.
Since learning is reliant on the social, emotional, and physiological development of…
In today's fast-paced world, it’s difficult to meet up with collaborators personally, and video conferencing has become accepted as a powerful tool to make up for this. The ultra-competitive global workplace requires teams to be able to make decisions across distances and without barriers.
But to enable this, organizations need to create productive work environments that…
In internal team discussions at Actis, we often marvel at how we feel 2015 represents the cusp of a massive transformation of how business is conducted. While the primary driver of this change is the real-time global business environment, this is closely followed by the fact that many collaboration-assisting technologies are now either achieving maturity,…
The term collaboration is almost always subconsciously associated with businesses, but its truly a universal tool that the mobile internet has enabled at almost every level and in almost every sphere of our lives. We collaborate as individuals in innumerable ways and then look for opportunities to apply this our work — making things happen…
In today's fast-paced world, it’s difficult to meet up with collaborators personally, and video conferencing has become accepted as a powerful tool to make up for this. It allows you to “virtually” meet with a team of people within seconds – no matter where everyone happens to be — and enables a conversation that’s nearly…
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Just 10 weeks ago (in December) we kick-started a new initiative to help improve the quality of information available on the implementation of AV, collaboration and energy managements projects in India.
This week, we're happy to say that this Blog has now crossed its 100th post, which represents a considerable amount of content intended to…
Continuing with Part 2 of this extremely useful series (see Part 1), Infocomm adds to its list of the most common errors made during the design and implementation of AV and video collaboration projects. These tutorials are a must-read resource for anyone designing a VC room.
New discussion points in this article are:
Know what you…
In this excellent article, Infocomm talks about some of the most common errors made during the design and implementation of AV and video collaboration projects. This tutorial (and its upcoming second part), are a must-read resource for anyone designing a VC room.
Key discussion points in this article are:
The room video camera needs to be…
While most of us are increasingly using digital forms of content for our presentations – there are some situations in which using physical documents and objects continues to be necessary. This is especially true in design, healthcare, education and manufacturing applications where printouts, transparencies and slides may need to be displayed.
But for many presenters, using…