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What is Access Grid

Chapter 30
Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
A collection of resources assembled for the purpose of supporting collaboration across different locations. Access Grid provides a near-real face-to-face experience in which people can experience “being there” in a shared space with others without having to travel. Generally Access grid ‘nodes’ are specifically equipped rooms. Desktop applications are also sometimes used where specifications allow this for individual users.
Published in Chapter:
Being Face to Face: A State of Mind or Technological Design?
Mary Allan (University of Canterbury, New Zealand) and David Thorns (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-264-0.ch030
Abstract
The chapter introduces the Bourdieuean habitus and field theory as a framework for an alternative way of investigating how perceptions of Media Rich Conferencing Technologies (MRCT) such as video conferencing, Access Grid and Telepresence systems affect approaches to their design, implementation and application, and the ways in which they are utilized by end users. The habitus and field theory is utilized to provide a break-way from prevalent models of analyzing technology uptake and innovation diffusion and provides a new framework for positioning the MRCT as a social construct operating within interrelating social, economic, environmental, and technological systems. This new positioning opens the way for an alternative view of the role of MRCT and facilitates new approaches to their design.
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