Implementation and Performance Evaluation of WWW Conference System for Supporting Remote Mental Health Care Education

Information technology (IT) has changed our lives and many applications are based on IT. IT can be helpful for remote mental health care education. Because there are very few mental health care specialists, it is very important to decrease their moving time. But it is not easy to use the conventional TV conference systems for ordinary people, mental health care specialists, and their students because they are not computer specialists. For this reason, we have developed a WWW conference Chapter 4.6 Implementation and Performance Evaluation of WWW Conference System for Supporting Remote Mental Health Care Education Kaoru Sugita Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan Giuseppe De Marco Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan Leonard Barolli Fukuoka Institute of Technology (FIT), Japan Noriki Uchida Global Software Corporation, Japan Akihiro Miyakawa Nanao City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan Copyright © 2009, IGI Global, distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. 1163 Implementation and Performance Evaluation of WWW Conference System system. Our system can communicate between the mental health care specialists and their students by using the live video on WWW browser. In this paper, we show the implementation and the evaluation of proposed system. The experimental results over the Internet show that our system can be used for real time communication between Fukuoka, Ishikawa, and Iwate prefectures.