Research Program

The main goals of our research program are to evaluate technologies and solutions regarding specific pressing access issues. Our work addresses the most significant problems faced by people using today's technologies as well as next generation technologies currently under development.

Current Generation Research Projects include:

• Testing industry solutions to the problem (the middle mile delimma) faced by rural individuals trying to get broadband access
• Examining the problems faced by wireless manufacturers to produce mobile voice, video, and data services and applications
• Investigating the intelligibility effects of telemedicine, distance learning, and e-commerce in rural america
• Developing strategies that would allow private and public partnerships to deploy broadband services and applications to rural america

Future Generation Research Projects include:

• Exploring, in conjunction with other researchers, strategies for capitalizing on and changing the architecture of future telecollaborative systems so that they would be usable by individuals with limited technical skills.