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Research Recommendations to Facilitate Distributed Work (1994) / Chapter Skim
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... Working while truly mobile-in activities ranging from sales and on-site customer support or equipment repair to composing and submitting a product design while traveling; Working as part of a geographically dispersed project teamin activities such as research and report writing done largely without traveling to a common site; and .
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... RESEARCH RECOMMENDATIONS Computing power, in terms of processing speed and mass storage capacity, and communication capabilities, in terms of available bandwidth and quality of services, can be viewed as a spectrum of varying capacities. Currently, with respect to distributed work, the "high end" of the spectrum may be thought of as being represented by a fully configured desktop workstation attached to a high-bandwidth network.
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... The committee recommends research centered on understanding and specifying quality-of-service factors, controlling the various types of traffic, enabling new billing methods, and minimizing the human efforts currently involved in establishing and maintaining multipoint, multimedia conference sessions. Applications Research Various types of distributed work are reasonably common in the U.S.
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... Research should concentrate on developing tools, interfaces, and systems that encourage information sharing; bridging synchronous and asynchronous communications to facilitate input to and follow-up from group work sessions; improving and extending the user interface to the telephone network and services; improving capabilities to use audio as a data type; and reducing the costs of input/output devices and network support. CONCLUSION During a period when the nation's economy seems to be in transition to a postindustrial model, the nation and its work force would be well served by having efficient and effective tools for engaging in distributed work.
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