We analyse the problems of supporting meetings in which remote participants discuss text documents. We present a proposal and initial work towards a large tabletop display that addresses these problems.

The annual Atlantic City meeting of the Young Turks was an exciting event--an opportunity to hear great science, to explore career opportunities, and to meet and make friends. Though the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, the meetings remained relatively intimate, broadly covering the best in medicine and constantly growing until the participants outgrew the Atlantic City venue to eventually spawn the nume...

• Support professional development • Keep up-to-date with the literature around clinical trial methodology • Disseminate information on and build up debate about good practice • Ensure that professional practice is evidence-based • Learn and practice critical appraisal skills • Develop ideas for research, descriptions of good practice within the unit that could be presented at meetings and/or s...

s for presentations at meetings, includingpresentations external to WRHA pharmacy departments 263160 Presentations within WRHA pharmacy departments,including “lunch and learn” sessions for technicians and Data notpharmacy educational roundsavailable3063 390J CPH – Vol. 63, n 5 – septembre–octobre 2010C JHP – Vol. 63, No. 5 – September–October 2010

This paper presents the SLMeetingRoom, a virtual reality online environment to support group meetings of geographically dispersed participants. A prototype was developed to demonstrate the feasibility of the approach using the Second Life platform. Ten additional components had to be added to Second Life environment to support group work essential activities such as participants' communication,...

When I started the neonatal screening in Japan, I could not obtain the necessary information for establishing the national screening system in my own country. Thus, around 1970, I visited H. Bickel, R. Guthrie and several other experts in the field of the neonatal screening in USA and Europe. Through their help, I could learn: (i) the philosophy of the world of screening, (ii) the way to improv...