 Mission
The mission of the ‘Connection Project’ is to develop and deploy the next generation of rich, reliable, and easy-to-use communication tools for faculty, students, and staff at the University of Michigan ... read more
Overview of the Project
The School of Information (SI) is located both in West Hall on Central Campus and three miles away in the SI North building on North Campus. The splitting of SI into two locations frustrates important educational, research, and operational communication ... read more
Research Issues
The Connection Project provides researchers the opportunity to study a number of critical issues concerning physically distributed environments - "Long-term effects of the Connection Project", "Social ergonomics", "Control flows across the multiple elements", "Awareness support", and "Network performance" ... read more
Project Phases
The Connection Project will evolve from an initial emphasis on high-definition digital video links between meeting rooms within School of Information buildings, to a network of rooms across the University of Michigan campuses, and eventually to connections with similarly equipped rooms around the world ... read more
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